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Bug 357521

Summary:	Cannot run Eclipse UI tests due to NPE on startup
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Remy Suen <remy.suen>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Bogdan Gheorghe <gheorghe>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, gheorghe, Olivier_Thomann
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	4.2 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Remy Suen

2011-09-13 12:58:36 EDT

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4264)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4198)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4169)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.error(Widget.java:468)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.checkParent(Widget.java:277)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.<init>(Widget.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.<init>(Control.java:110)
	at org.eclipse.ui.splash.BasicSplashHandler.getBundleProgressMonitor(BasicSplashHandler.java:159)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.run(Workbench.java:543)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:519)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:123)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.junit.runtime.NonUIThreadTestApplication.runApp(NonUIThreadTestApplication.java:54)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.junit.runtime.UITestApplication.runApp(UITestApplication.java:41)
	at org.eclipse.pde.internal.junit.runtime.NonUIThreadTestApplication.start(NonUIThreadTestApplication.java:48)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:344)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:48)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:600)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1386)

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-09-13 13:24:42 EDT

I got the same NPE when trying to start I20110913-0200 with -nosplash.

Comment 2 Bogdan Gheorghe

2011-09-13 16:04:10 EDT

Fixed in R4_development > 20110913

Comment 3 Remy Suen

2011-09-14 08:54:34 EDT

Verified that I can start Eclipse with -nosplash with I20110914-0200 on Windows XP.