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Description of problem: The GUI designer in netbeans does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netbeans-6.9-2.fc15.norach How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create new sample Java Desktop Application 2. Try to edit about window 3. Notice exception in status bar 4. GUI designer never finishes loading Additional info: Can be worked around by using: netbeans -cp:a /usr/share/java/batik/batik-ext.jar
I am having the same problem as described above on Fedora 15 with the netbeans-ide-6.9-3.fc15.noarch package installed. I can work around by running: netbeans -cp:a /usr/share/java/xml-commons-apis.jar For some reason it seems that xml-commons-apis.jar is not included in the classpath when running netbeans. Trace is below. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) Caused: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal starting from ModuleCL@535c97e4[org.netbeans.libs.xerces] with possible defining loaders null and declared parents [] at org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) Caused: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ElementTraversal at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634) at org.netbeans.JarClassLoader.doLoadClass(Unknown Source) Caused: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/ElementTraversal while loading org.apache.xerces.domorg.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl; see http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqTroubleshootClassNotFound at org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.selfLoadClass(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.startDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.startEntity(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLVersionDetector.startDocumentParsing(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.modules.form.GandalfPersistenceManager.canLoadForm(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.modules.form.FormDesigner$PreLoadTask.getPersistenceManager(Unknown Source) at org.netbeans.modules.form.FormDesigner$PreLoadTask.run(Unknown Source) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(Unknown Source) [catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(Unknown Source)
netbeans-6.9-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/netbeans-6.9-5.fc16
Package netbeans-6.9-5.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing netbeans-6.9-5.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/netbeans-6.9-5.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
netbeans-6.9-5.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.