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Bug 316210

Summary: Internal error in Load Target Platform job
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Tim deBoer <deboer>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: curtis.windatt.public
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Tim deBoer CLA 2010-06-08 16:55:53 EDT 
I clicked finish in a wizard that would have trigged the initialization of PDE as part of it's processing. A few seconds later, the job failed with the following error:

An internal error occurred during: "Load Target Platform".

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.LoadTargetDefinitionJob.handleReload(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.LoadTargetDefinitionJob.loadPlugins(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.target.provisional.LoadTargetDefinitionJob.runInWorkspace(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Unknown Source)
Comment 1 Curtis Windatt CLA 2010-09-29 11:49:19 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 314456 ***