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Bug 366455

Summary: NPE in ContentMergeViewerLayout.layout
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: emoffatt, helgepriva, remy.suen
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2011-12-12 15:09:31 EST
Problem might be in PartRenderingEngine?

!SESSION 2011-12-12 13:57:56.187 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=I20111209-2100
java.version=1.5.0_14
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_CA
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

!ENTRY org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench 4 0 2011-12-12 14:53:36.265
!MESSAGE Internal Error
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.compare.contentmergeviewer.ContentMergeViewer$ContentMergeViewerLayout.layout(ContentMergeViewer.java:121)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1263)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1270)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.updateLayout(Composite.java:1249)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite.setLayoutDeferred(Composite.java:1086)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredLayouts(Display.java:4189)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3747)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:977)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:893)
	at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:91)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.run(Workbench.java:565)
	at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:520)
	at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:124)
	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:352)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:624)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:579)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1433)
Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2011-12-12 15:11:55 EST
I was clicking from Package Explorer view onto Git Tree Compare View tab when I got this NPE.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2011-12-12 15:47:45 EST
Probably the same bug as bug 348429.
Comment 3 Paul Webster CLA 2011-12-13 09:23:16 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348429 ***
Comment 4 Helge Priva CLA 2013-07-31 07:53:35 EDT
If you have this problem please vote for this bug please vote for its duplicate here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=348429