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I'm using Eclipse 3.7M7 Cocoal and I've started seeing occasional problem in the IDE when invoking a command that opens a dialog. The stack shows NPE being thrown by Shell.createHandle(). It seems fairly easy to reproduce once it happens, but I have not found a reliable way to initially reproduce the problem. Right now, I can sometimes reproduce it by moving classes to new packages. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.createHandle(Shell.java:665) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.createWidget(Widget.java:602) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.createWidget(Control.java:979) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Scrollable.createWidget(Scrollable.java:159) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.<init>(Shell.java:291) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.<init>(Shell.java:369) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.createShell(Window.java:487) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:430) at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation$1.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:172) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:193) at org.eclipse.ltk.ui.refactoring.RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.run(RefactoringWizardOpenOperation.java:116) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.actions.RefactoringStarter.activate(RefactoringStarter.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.refactoring.reorg.ReorgMoveStarter.run(ReorgMoveStarter.java:80) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.SelectionTransferDropAdapter.handleDropMove(SelectionTransferDropAdapter.java:283) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.packageview.SelectionTransferDropAdapter.performDrop(SelectionTransferDropAdapter.java:220) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.dnd.JdtViewerDropAdapter.drop(JdtViewerDropAdapter.java:246) at org.eclipse.jface.util.DelegatingDropAdapter$3.run(DelegatingDropAdapter.java:211) 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.util.DelegatingDropAdapter.drop(DelegatingDropAdapter.java:209) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DNDListener.handleEvent(DNDListener.java:90) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4114) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1443) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1466) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1451) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1263) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.drop(DropTarget.java:726) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.outlineView_acceptDrop_item_childIndex(DropTarget.java:744) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.dropTargetProc(DropTarget.java:469) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.dndCallSuper(DropTarget.java:208) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.performDragOperation(DropTarget.java:737) at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.DropTarget.dropTargetProc(DropTarget.java:454) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.callSuper(Widget.java:220) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.mouseDownSuper(Widget.java:1081) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.mouseDownSuper(Tree.java:2022) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.mouseDown(Widget.java:1073) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.mouseDown(Control.java:2494) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.mouseDown(Tree.java:1989) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5453) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.callSuper(Widget.java:220) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.windowSendEvent(Widget.java:2082) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.windowSendEvent(Shell.java:2243) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5517) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.applicationSendEvent(Display.java:4971) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.applicationProc(Display.java:5120) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSend(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.NSApplication.sendEvent(NSApplication.java:128) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3596) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2696) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2660) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2494) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:674) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:667) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:123) 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:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) 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)
I believe this is a dup of bug#338975. Because the shells were leaked, we were not able to create new owns. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 338975 ***