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This bug was originally marked as duplicate of bug 250888, that is already resolved. This bug is still valid, so this seems to be another bug, but it might be related. Build: NetBeans IDE 8.1 RC (Build 201510012201) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 25.20-b23, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.8.0_20-b26 OS: Windows 7 User Comments: emiddio: first startup Stacktrace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.DelegatingVCS.getTopmostManagedAncestor(DelegatingVCS.java:187) at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.VersioningManager.getOwner(VersioningManager.java:452) at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.VersioningAnnotationProvider.getOwner(VersioningAnnotationProvider.java:96) at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.VersioningAnnotationProvider.access$1200(VersioningAnnotationProvider.java:78) at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.VersioningAnnotationProvider$Cache.getCommonOwner(VersioningAnnotationProvider.java:773) at org.netbeans.modules.versioning.core.VersioningAnnotationProvider$Cache.annotate(VersioningAnnotationProvider.java:677)
Created attachment 156596 [details] stacktrace
Something wrong with OSGi, there are plenty of errors coming from netigso and it looks as if practically no OSGi module can be loaded: SEVERE [org.openide.util.Exceptions] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Would also need to enable StandardModule:org.apache.tools.ant.module jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.1 RC\extide\modules\org-apache-tools-ant-module.jar at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1185) at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(ModuleManager.java:1132) [catch] at org.netbeans.NetigsoLoader.getDelegate(NetigsoLoader.java:116) at org.netbeans.NetigsoLoader.getDelegate(NetigsoLoader.java:102) at org.netbeans.NetigsoLoader.loadClass(NetigsoLoader.java:78) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.loadClass(BundleLoader.java:340) emidio, please can you try start NB once more with completely cleaning the userdir/cachedir? Also try not to import anything during the first startup.
The messages.log contains a lot of strange exceptions. It is not clear, what happened. Can you please provide steps how to reproduce it? Thanks.