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about 2/3 of the time i try to rename a method in source code using the refactoring module the IDE throws a nullpointerexception and tells me to report a bug against the java refactoring module (which is not in the list of the more complicated bug reporting form). I seem to remember filing a similar bug for 6.1 and got a could not be replicated result. I tried to replicate in simple code but without success. The error message asks for a var/log/messages.log file to be attached, but i cannot find the file in the NetBeans 6.5 or the Java directory (using automated search).
The messages.log is located in netbeas user directory. ($HOME/.netbeans/6.5/var/log)
Created attachment 76234 [details] as requested
Reassigning to refactoring.
this issue is already filed as issue 120577. The problem is that the meta data folder contains invalid data. The NPE is only a result of this corruption. Unfortunately the exception does not say anything about why are the data invalid. So any reliable steps to reproduce are welcome. As a workaround, delete ${userdir}/var/cache/index folder and start IDE again (the start may take longer time since the cache are recreated) *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 120577 ***