Maarten Hazewinkel wrote (9/28/08 6:07 AM):
Hi Gary,
I'm getting into this a little bit late, so forgive me if I missed
something that's already been looked at.
I appreciate your interest. I'm happy to see as many people looking
at this
as problem as desire to.
It sounds like somehow Java 1.6 is taking precedence in a number of
situations, including the javac
command from IDEA and at the end of the multi-layered startup scripts
in NetBeans.
If 1.6 is taken, no options like -d32 or -client will take effect, it
will always run in 64bit server mode.
I can think of a few ways in which that might happen. To verify I'd
like to try a few terminal commands.
If you can run these, and mail me the output, perhaps that can help:
Happy to do so. Some I've done before but more knowledgeable eyes
may see
better.
java -version
(very basic, see which java gets picked up by default)
java version "1.5.0_16"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-
b06-284)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-133, mixed mode)
set
(list all environment variables in effect)
ANT_HOME=/Users/gnunes/Documents/Development/Java/classes-libraries-
tools/ap
ache-ant-1.6.5
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-K0YLTn/Render
BASH=/bin/bash
BASH_ARGC=()
BASH_ARGV=()
BASH_LINENO=()
BASH_SOURCE=()
BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="2" [2]="17" [3]="1" [4]="release"
[5]="i386-apple-darwin9.0")
BASH_VERSION='3.2.17(1)-release'
CATALINA_HOME=/Library/Tomcat
CLASSPATH=:bsh-2.0b4.jar
COLUMNS=120
COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
DIRSTACK=()
DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-2MvYZu/:0
EUID=501
GROOVY_HOME='/Downloads/++Java-XML-XSL Related/groovy-1.0-RC-02'
GROUPS=()
HISTFILE=/Users/gnunes/.bash_history
HISTFILESIZE=500
HISTSIZE=500
HOME=/Users/gnunes
HOSTNAME=FlyingMonkeys.home
HOSTTYPE=i386
IFS=$' \t\n'
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LINES=50
LOGNAME=gnunes
MACHTYPE=i386-apple-darwin9.0
MAILCHECK=60
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man
OPTERR=1
OPTIND=1
OSTYPE=darwin9.0
PATH='/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/
Library/Jav
a/Home/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/
bin:/Librar
y/Tcl/bin:.:/Downloads/++Java-XML-XSL Related/groovy-1.0-RC-02/bin'
PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")
PPID=6090
PS1='[\h:\W] \u\$ '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
PWD=/Users/gnunes
SECURITYSESSIONID=a23e10
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-
comments:
monitor
SHLVL=1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-dawgld/Listeners
TERM=xterm-color
TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=240
TMPDIR=/var/folders/DG/DG+8O7Vq2RW2jk+1Yqgnp++++TI/-Tmp-/
UID=501
USER=gnunes
_=-version
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
which java
(see which java executable is used. Should be /usr/bin/java)
/Library/Java/Home/bin/java
NOTE: Some time in distant memory I read (in some Apple document) that
JAVA_HOME should be set to "/Library/Java/Home" rather then to
something
more explicit. This may explain the result of the "which java"
command (as
opposed to your expected result).
cat ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
(A file that can set environment variables for all Mac OS X
applications, not just shell-invoked ones).
cat: /Users/gnunes/.MacOSX/environment.plist: No such file or
directory
NOTE: there's no .MacOSX directory
Kind regards,
Maarten
Thanks for the help,
gary
P.S.
Since you indicated you only recently looked at this. Here's a summary
(ignore if it looks like stuff you already know):
- The problems described below are rare but not unique to by system.
- NetBeans crashes on Finder launch (icon double click) but not on
Terminal
launch (open "/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.1.app").
- The Finder launch crash log indicates a crash in 64-bit mode.
- Terminal launched NetBeans runs in 32-bit mode.
- Some people with the problem can't run from the Terminal without
using a
sudo command (there may be others who can't run under any
circumstances ...
not sure about that though).
- Nothing on my system is explicitly set to use 64-bit mode or Java
1.6 (as
far as I know).
- Debugging statements added to the shell script that NetBeans
ultimately
uses to launch itself (nbexec in the NetBeans.app package) seem to
indicate
that the command lines generated for Finder and Terminal launch are
equivalent.
- Another IDE, IntelliJ IDEA launches successfully (as far as I can
tell)
but, when commanded (from its menu commands) to compile/rebuild/make a
project, the compile/etc. fails with a crash log that is very
similar to the
NetBeans crash log.
- If I use IDEA to generate an Ant script to do the project rebuild/
make,
and then run the Ant script, the rebuild/make works.
