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Netbeans debugger consistently hangs my Linux/Gnome/X11 desktop if I hit a breakpoint in the debugger and a popup menu is displayed. For example, I want to debug as a context menu is raised in Swing, so I set the breakpoint and invoke my popup code. Netbeans will indicate the program counter (green bar) at my breakpoint, but the whole desktop will be hung. I need to switch to a different console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 on Ubuntu) and kill the process I'm debugging.
Created attachment 83623 [details] jstack output of my process when the desktop is hung
This is a known issue - duplicate of issue #93076. Debugger suspends an application while it holds native AWT lock, therefore nobody else can access the GUI. Unfortunately this will not be fixed, therefore you simply can not debug such code. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 93076 ***
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.