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Bug 357721 - [viewmgmt] NPE when activating a view on perspective switch.
Summary: [viewmgmt] NPE when activating a view on perspective switch.
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Debug-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-15 00:44 EDT by Pawel Piech CLA
Modified: 2016-07-18 07:12 EDT (History)
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Description Pawel Piech CLA 2011-09-15 00:44:03 EDT 
I'm not sure if this is a bug in view management or in workbench page.  I got this exception intermittently when switching between perspectives.

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyShowView(WorkbenchPage.java:948)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$8.run(WorkbenchPage.java:3363)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.showView(WorkbenchPage.java:3360)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService$ViewBinding.activated(ViewContextService.java:496)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService$DebugContextViewBindings.doActivation(ViewContextService.java:263)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService$DebugContextViewBindings.activateChain(ViewContextService.java:235)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService.activateChain(ViewContextService.java:1011)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService.contextActivated(ViewContextService.java:838)
	at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.views.ViewContextService.contextManagerChanged(ViewContextService.java:1085)
	at 	at 
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Comment 1 Andrey Loskutov CLA 2016-07-18 07:12:13 EDT 
The code changed a lot in 4.x stream, and this is most likely a dup of bug 471782.