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Using Ubuntu on an AMD 64 bit laptop, I downloaded the nb7.0 linux installer (http://netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?platform=linux&lang=en&option=javase) and made it executable. Running it fails without exception message before the splash page. Console output follows: brad@brad-laptop:~/Downloads$ brad@brad-laptop:~/Downloads$ ./netbeans-7.0-ml-javase-linux.sh Configuring the installer... Searching for JVM on the system... Extracting installation data... Running the installer wizard... null brad@brad-laptop:~/Downloads$
Please run with --verbose --output out.txt and attach the out.txt log file
Created attachment 107962 [details] verbose output
Appears to be because the open-jdk (installed by accident) is headless. Perhaps just catch the exception and output a message about being incompatible
> Perhaps just catch the exception and output a message about being incompatible Right, instead of "null" a meaningful message should be printed.
fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/08e149c30a3d
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201104280000* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/08e149c30a3d User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #198107 - Install fails on linux 64 bit print a meaningful message instead of "null"