Netbeans 7.3 and 7.3.1 hangup after last JDK update

[Adam Kowalewski]

Already reported at netbeans.org https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233557

Answer:
"The problem will not be fixed on NetBeans side and this bug will be closed wontfix."
Problem was

Clean Ubuntu 12.4 and Netbeans 7.3 with endless please wait

Netbeans freezes on
- create new project
- when using code completion in XHTML or Java files

My problem began on 25.07.2013. On this day Ubuntu updated:

openjdk-6-jdk
  from 6b27-1.12.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  to 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre
  from 6b27-1.12.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  to 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-lib
  from 6b27-1.12.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  to 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-headless
  from 6b27-1.12.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  to 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2

IMHO there is a bug between current Java 6 packages in Ubuntu 12.4 LTS
(6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) and Netbeans 7.3 as well as 7.3.1.

I just prepared a clean Ubuntu 12.4 64bit installation VM within VirualBox.

1. Install Ubuntu 12.4
2. Install all updates
3. Install default openjdk-6-jdk and openjdk-6-jre
4. Install Netbeans 7.3 or 7.3.1

I run Netbeans, "create new project" and have the "endless please wait"
problem!

Would be great If somebody could have a look on that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b27-1.12.6-1ubuntu0.12.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-36.57~precise1-generic 3.5.7.14
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 30 17:41:06 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130213)
LocalLibraries: /home/adam/netbeans-7.3/platform/modules/lib/amd64/linux/libjnidispatch-340.so
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[peromalosutra (iivanrajkovic)]

I have same issue, netbeans freezes on autocomplete. To restart it, I have to kill java, only to have it froozen again. This started happening after last update. BTW, I'm posting this for 2nd time since 1st time Chrome frooze and killing Java process helped there as well, so it seems as both issues have something to do with java jre.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS, 64bit on ASUS K95V laptop.

Also, I cannot update netbeans through About dialog, since it freezes there as well while scanning for available plugins.

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 7.3 (Build 201302132200)
Updates: Updates available to version NetBeans 7.3 Patch 2
Java: 1.6.0_27; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 20.0-b12
Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 1.6.0_27-b27
System: Linux version 3.4.0-030400-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
User directory: /home/ivan/.netbeans/7.3
Cache directory: /home/ivan/.cache/netbeans/7.3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Hefley (dhefley)]

Same issue for me.

[Andrei Uhlik (korish)]

Hi,

I've had the same problem and solved it the following way:
1) Uninstalled Netbeans 7.3;
2) Uninstalled Java 6;
3) Installed Java 7;
4) Installed Netbeans 7.3;