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Bug 63746 - Bad Handling of Exception causes NetBeans to Hang at startup
Summary: Bad Handling of Exception causes NetBeans to Hang at startup
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: obsolete
Classification: Unclassified
Component: vcscore (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@obsolete
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Reported: 2005-09-07 00:11 UTC by hash9
Modified: 2009-12-21 07:33 UTC (History)
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Description hash9 2005-09-07 00:11:29 UTC 
The Following exeception in the messages.log file appears to cause NetBeans to
hang at startup.

*********** Exception occurred ************ at 11:51 PM on Sep 6, 2005
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid ClassPath root:
file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/hash9/My%20Documents/Java/Grendel/Grendel/trunk/Grendel_HEAD/mozilla/grendel/extlib/README/.
The root must be a folder.
	at org.netbeans.api.java.classpath.ClassPath$Entry.getRoot(ClassPath.java:512)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.javacore.classpath.FilterClassPathImplementation.createResources(FilterClassPathImplementation.java:109)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.javacore.classpath.FilterClassPathImplementation.<init>(FilterClassPathImplementation.java:57)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.javacore.classpath.FilterClassPathImplementation.createClassPath(FilterClassPathImplementation.java:206)
	at
org.netbeans.modules.javacore.ExclusiveMutex.setClassPath(ExclusiveMutex.java:407)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.JMManager.setClassPath(JMManager.java:395)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.JMManager.setClassPath(JMManager.java:452)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.JMManager.setClassPath(JMManager.java:441)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.api.JavaModel.setClassPath(JavaModel.java:74)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaNode.resolveIcons(JavaNode.java:558)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaNode$StateUpdater.updateNodes(JavaNode.java:731)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaNode$StateUpdater.run(JavaNode.java:724)
	at org.openide.util.Task.run(Task.java:207)
	at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:469)
[catch] at
org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:870)
Comment 1 Quality Engineering 2009-12-21 07:33:16 UTC 
This bug was reported against NetBeans IDE 6.0 or an older release, or against a non-maintained module. NetBeans team does not have enough resources to get to this issue, therefore we are closing the issue as a WONTFIX. If you are interested in providing a patch for this bug, please see our NetFIX guidelines for how to proceed. 

We apologize for any inconvenience.


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The NetBeans Team