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While running NetBeans 5.5, it paused for a while. Having the time to wonder why, I looked at the log file and noticed some exceptions: INFORMATIONAL *********** Exception occurred ************ at 11:02 AM on Nov 8, 2006 java.lang.ClassCastException: org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.NormalBtreeExtent at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDataFile.getDeletedExtent(BtreeDataFile.java:527) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDataFile.getNormalExtent(BtreeDataFile.java:921) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDataFile.put(BtreeDataFile.java:331) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDataFile.put(BtreeDataFile.java:314) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDatabase.addRecord(BtreeDatabase.java:927) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDatabase.save(BtreeDatabase.java:543) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeDatabase.commitChanges(BtreeDatabase.java:447) at org.netbeans.mdr.persistence.btreeimpl.btreestorage.BtreeStorage.commitChanges(BtreeStorage.java:325) at org.netbeans.mdr.storagemodel.MdrStorage.save(MdrStorage.java:576) at org.netbeans.mdr.storagemodel.MdrStorage.commit(MdrStorage.java:547) at org.netbeans.mdr.util.TransactionMutex.end(TransactionMutex.java:83) [catch] at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.ExclusiveMutex.leave(ExclusiveMutex.java:366) at org.netbeans.mdr.NBMDRepositoryImpl.endTrans(NBMDRepositoryImpl.java:255) at org.netbeans.mdr.NBMDRepositoryImpl.endTrans(NBMDRepositoryImpl.java:249) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor$JavaEditorComponent.createNode(JavaEditor.java:1341) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor$JavaEditorComponent.access$1000(JavaEditor.java:1230) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor$JavaEditorComponent$1$1.run(JavaEditor.java:1282) at org.openide.util.Mutex.readAccess(Mutex.java:227) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor$JavaEditorComponent$1.run(JavaEditor.java:1280) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:499) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:932) I don't know if it helps, but at the time I was looking at a class that exists in multiple packages and multiple source roots with the same package.
I am closing all reports in category Java/Unsupported as wontfix. These should be dead issues --- if the reported cases are against some live part of the NetBeans IDE please reopen and we can discuss to which category they belong.