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When launching netbeans i'm getting a warning window saying basically "make sure /dev is writable" and heres the error msg i get when launching from CLI: $ /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans\ Dev\ 201202120400.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/bin/netbeans ; exit; /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans Dev 201202120400.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/bin/netbeans: line 65: Support/NetBeans: No such file or directory java.io.FileNotFoundException: /dev/lock (Permission denied) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(RandomAccessFile.java:216) at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:579) at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:383) at org.netbeans.MainImpl.execute(MainImpl.java:223) at org.netbeans.MainImpl.main(MainImpl.java:85) at org.netbeans.Main.main(Main.java:78) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:696) at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:383) at org.netbeans.MainImpl.execute(MainImpl.java:223) at org.netbeans.MainImpl.main(MainImpl.java:85) at org.netbeans.Main.main(Main.java:78) logout
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208311 ***