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Bug 80710 - Can not open the welcome screen after starting the IDE
Summary: Can not open the welcome screen after starting the IDE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
URL:
Keywords: RANDOM
Depends on: 80715
Blocks:
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Reported: 2006-07-20 12:39 UTC by Petr Jiricka
Modified: 2008-12-22 18:55 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:

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2006-07-20 12:42 UTC, Petr Jiricka 		Details
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2006-07-20 12:43 UTC, Petr Jiricka 		Details
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Description Petr Jiricka 2006-07-20 12:39:49 UTC 
7/19 NetBeans 5.5 beta 2 candidate build on Windows

This looks like a random issue - the "Articles and News" section of the welcome
screen was not loaded and the following error message was displayed: "Error
while loading content".

The other part of the welcome screen (Blogs) was loaded correctly, and proxy
settings were also detected correctly (update center works too out of the box).

The IDE log reveals that there was HTTP error 504 when loading URL
http://www.netbeans.org/news.xml.

I am attaching a screenshot and my IDE log file.
Comment 1 Petr Jiricka 2006-07-20 12:42:31 UTC 
Created attachment 32042 [details]
Screenshot
Comment 2 Petr Jiricka 2006-07-20 12:43:26 UTC 
Created attachment 32043 [details]
IDE log file
Comment 3 Petr Jiricka 2006-07-20 12:46:57 UTC 
Restarting the IDE solved the problem, the second time welcome screen loads
correctly. 

I think a good solution for this problem could be to display a "Retry"
button/icon when the error occurs.
Comment 4 Peter Pis 2006-07-23 21:03:43 UTC 
Reassigning to "core" for evaluation.
Comment 5 David Simonek 2006-07-24 17:08:27 UTC 
Passing to Standa.
Comment 6 Stanislav Aubrecht 2006-07-25 10:16:08 UTC 
the log shows that http response code 504 (Gateway Timeout) for the news feed
url   so there isn't much to fix on the client side.

see also issue #80715
Comment 7 Petr Jiricka 2006-07-25 14:58:18 UTC 
Yes, I agree that implementing enhancement #80715 would be a satisfactory
problem to this issue.
Comment 8 Stanislav Aubrecht 2006-08-02 11:17:21 UTC 
fixed in trunk:

Checking in resources/Bundle.properties;
/cvs/ide/welcome/src/org/netbeans/modules/welcome/resources/Bundle.properties,v
 <--  Bundle.properties
new revision: 1.7; previous revision: 1.6
done
Checking in content/RSSFeed.java;
/cvs/ide/welcome/src/org/netbeans/modules/welcome/content/RSSFeed.java,v  <-- 
RSSFeed.java
new revision: 1.21; previous revision: 1.20
done


a 'reload' button is available if the feed doesn't load for any other reason
than 'invalid proxy settings'
Comment 9 Stanislav Aubrecht 2006-08-03 11:37:57 UTC 
fixed in release55 branch:

Checking in content/RSSFeed.java;
/cvs/ide/welcome/src/org/netbeans/modules/welcome/content/RSSFeed.java,v  <-- 
RSSFeed.java
new revision: 1.1.2.10; previous revision: 1.1.2.9
done
Checking in resources/Bundle.properties;
/cvs/ide/welcome/src/org/netbeans/modules/welcome/resources/Bundle.properties,v
 <--  Bundle.properties
new revision: 1.1.2.7; previous revision: 1.1.2.6
done