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When netbeans 5 is installed as a subdirectory of the JDK that is chosen during the installation of netbeans (possibly the JDK that the JAVA_HOME environmental variable points to), it will hang forever when loading the modules during startup. The taskmanager will claim that netbeans is still responding. When the process is manually killed the logfile fills up with messages claiming that modules could not be found. This issue was witnessed on two seperate machines, both windows XP SP2 with JDK 1.5.06. Workaround: do not install netbeans inside the JDK directory.
Startup problem.
It hurts seriously with NB5.0. It is bit better with trunk - info about unsatisfied dependecies is displayed (either missing JavaHelp on Win or ModuleFormat1 on Linux). The problems is list ignoredPrefixes in ModuleSystem class that causes skip of loading of some boot modules. We go through 'goto MANIFESTS' in ModuleSystem.loadBootModules(). The IDE starts if I comment loop causing this skip.
Just removing the check is no good since that would cause a performance regression. Need to find some more refined check.
Checking in ModuleSystem.java; /shared/data/ccvs/repository/core/startup/src/org/netbeans/core/startup/ModuleSystem.java,v <-- ModuleSystem.java new revision: 1.15; previous revision: 1.14 done
*** Issue 81024 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***