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Bug 370205 - [telnet] Cannot use Telnet on Windows 7 due to NPE
Summary: [telnet] Cannot use Telnet on Windows 7 due to NPE
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Target Management
Classification: Tools
Component: RSE (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: dsdp.tm.rse-inbox CLA
QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber CLA
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Depends on: 357667
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Reported: 2012-01-31 07:21 EST by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2012-01-31 11:24 EST (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 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 CLA 2012-01-31 10:04:49 EST 
Martin,
do you have a stack trace?
Comment 2 Martin Oberhuber CLA 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.