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Created attachment 94024 [details] log file after NetBeans 6.8 crashes When I start NetBeans 6.8 and select the File menu followed by the Open File enu item, the IDE crashes without warning. First, I made sure that all old files related to Java and NetBeans were removed form disk. I cleaned my registry to remove all old Java and NetBeans entries. I installed Java SDK and NetBeans from this file: jdk-6u18-nb-6_8-windows-ml After I started NetBeans and selected File and Open File, the attached log file was generated.
Well, this may not have been a NB problem after all. I change the Look & Feel to Nimbus (by adding "--laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel" to the netbeans_default_options line in etc/netbeans.conf in the NetBeans folder) and everything works fine. This link describes how to change the Look & Feel: http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/how_to_change_look_and I got the idea here: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6544857 It's the entry under "Submitted On 13-MAY-2009" by Peter from Australia.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179348 ***
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