Re: NetBeans 27 hangs

Ernie Rael <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:05:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.ide.netbeans.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25/09/17 4:48 PM, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> NetBeans starts up just fine but when I try to open a project it 
> hangs.  The bottom of the screen says "Opening Project."  When I 
> expand it it says "Activating HTML5."  At that point it just hangs.  
> In fact, if I go to File / Exit it doesn't exit.  I have to kill the 
> process.

Taking a thread dump, for example with jstack, and attaching that to an 
issue is probably a good start; also attaching the NB log file. Search: 
java thread dump for other ways to get a thread dump.

-ernie


>
> The particulars:
>
> NetBeans 27
> Fedora Linux 42 / X11
> Java 21.0.8
> Good Internet connection
> Plenty of RAM and disk space
>
> The project I am trying to open is at Kiss 
> <https://github.com/blakemcbride/Kiss>
> Before I try to open it I build it (so the jars are downloaded).  
> (./bld build)
> I also remove pom.xml and build.gradle since it is not a Maven or 
> Gradle system.
>
> It has been a long time since I tried to take a look at NetBeans.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake
>