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Bug 370205

Summary:	[telnet] Cannot use Telnet on Windows 7 due to NPE
Product:	[Tools] Target Management	Reporter:	Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Component:	RSE	Assignee:	dsdp.tm.rse-inbox <tm.rse-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	anna.dushistova, uwe.st
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Bug Depends on:	357667
Bug Blocks:

Description Martin Oberhuber

2012-01-31 07:21:48 EST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #357667 +++

Build ID: RSE 3.4M5 (Juno)

When testing bug 357667 on a Windows 7 64-bit machine, I could not use the telnet subsystem due to a NullPointerException.

Comment 1 Anna Dushistova

2012-01-31 10:04:49 EST

Martin,
do you have a stack trace?

Comment 2 Martin Oberhuber

2012-01-31 11:24:32 EST

I didn't actually record a trace when the issue happened ... I just couldn't get telnet to work. 

When I tried reproducing today, I ran into two issues:

1.) The telnet connect just got stuck most of the time, supposedly sine
    my target didn't send the expected prompt. After a number of tries and
    config I finally got that to work on one target, but it's awfully 
    unreliable (I'd even say unusable).

2.) Ran into bug 370237 when testing.

It's possible that in Eclipse 4.2m4 I actually saw as an NPE what now manifests as a different exception in bug 370237.