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Bug 320136 - Get NPE when bringing up debug launch configuration dialog before starting up resource manager
Summary: Get NPE when bringing up debug launch configuration dialog before starting up...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: PTP
Classification: Tools
Component: RM.PE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.0.3   Edit
Assignee: Greg Watson CLA
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Reported: 2010-07-16 14:18 EDT by Xuan Chen CLA
Modified: 2010-08-17 15:00 EDT (History)
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Description Xuan Chen CLA 2010-07-16 14:18:31 EDT 
I did not start the resource manager before I invoked the debug launch configuration dialog (I already had several debug sessions using PE resource manager).  And I got an error message, and the following exception in the .log file:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.ptp.rm.ibm.pe.ui.rmLaunchConfiguration.PERMLaunchConfigurationDynamicTab.createControl(PERMLaunchConfigurationDynamicTab.java:1722)
	at org.eclipse.ptp.launch.ui.ResourcesTab.updateLaunchAttributeControls(ResourcesTab.java:476)
	at org.eclipse.ptp.launch.ui.ResourcesTab.initializeFrom(ResourcesTab.java:236)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupWrapper.initializeFrom(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupWrapper.java:201)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.displayInstanceTabs(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.java:751)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer$8.run(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.java:623)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.inputChanged(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.java:640)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.setInput0(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.java:602)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.setInput(LaunchConfigurationTabGroupViewer.java:578)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationsDialog.handleLaunchConfigurationSelectionChanged(LaunchConfigurationsDialog.java:940)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationsDialog$3.selectionChanged(LaunchConfigurationsDialog.java:559)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$3.run(StructuredViewer.java:867)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:49)
	at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:175)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.firePostSelectionChanged(StructuredViewer.java:865)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.setSelection(StructuredViewer.java:1700)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer.setSelection(TreeViewer.java:1139)
	at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer.setSelection(Viewer.java:392)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationsDialog.doInitialTreeSelection(LaunchConfigurationsDialog.java:599)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationsDialog.initializeContent(LaunchConfigurationsDialog.java:1077)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.launchConfigurations.LaunchConfigurationsDialog.createContents(LaunchConfigurationsDialog.java:440)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:431)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089)
Comment 1 Greg Watson CLA 2010-08-17 15:00:19 EDT 
Fixed in HEAD and 4.0