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Bug 351573 - Help -> About Eclipse dialog won't display due to NullPointerException
Summary: Help -> About Eclipse dialog won't display due to NullPointerException
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 347642
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: PDE-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-07-08 10:01 EDT by Jason Sachs CLA
Modified: 2011-07-08 10:59 EDT (History)
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Description Jason Sachs CLA 2011-07-08 10:01:39 EDT
Build Identifier: eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736

I get a NullPointerException when I click Help -> About Eclipse. This is extremely bad, since I can neither figure out the version / build id of Eclipse or of its plugins, and I can't uninstall plugins.

This happened after I installed the latest version of Scala-IDE.

I've copied the entry from the error log below:

eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736
java.version=1.6.0_20
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86

Error
Fri Jul 08 09:51:26 EDT 2011
An unexpected exception was thrown.

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.io.FilterInputStream.close(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.about.AboutBundleGroupData.getFeatureImageCrc(AboutBundleGroupData.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.about.AboutFeaturesButtonManager.add(AboutFeaturesButtonManager.java:61)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.AboutDialog.createFeatureButton(AboutDialog.java:433)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.AboutDialog.createFeatureImageButtonRow(AboutDialog.java:427)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.AboutDialog.createDialogArea(AboutDialog.java:340)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.createContents(Dialog.java:760)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:431)
	at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1089)
	at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:790)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.about.AboutHandler.execute(AboutHandler.java:32)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerProxy.execute(HandlerProxy.java:293)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.Command.executeWithChecks(Command.java:476)
	at org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterizedCommand.executeWithChecks(ParameterizedCommand.java:508)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.HandlerService.executeCommand(HandlerService.java:169)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.handlers.SlaveHandlerService.executeCommand(SlaveHandlerService.java:241)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.actions.CommandAction.runWithEvent(CommandAction.java:157)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:584)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:501)
	at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:411)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1053)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4165)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3754)
	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(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:622)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
click Help -> About Eclipse after installing Scala-IDE
Comment 1 Jason Sachs CLA 2011-07-08 10:59:24 EDT
Looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=347642.

Sorry, I couldn't find that in my initial search.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 347642 ***