Description of problem: If I try to open a file and then select a file from the 'recently used' documents list the file dialog crashes. Here is the full exception. Exception in thread "Thread-10" java.lang.NullPointerException at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.setFileInternal(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:79) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.run(Native Method) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.showNativeDialog(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:166) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer.access$000(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:39) at sun.awt.X11.GtkFileDialogPeer$1.run(GtkFileDialogPeer.java:108) This is known upstream in: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7130662 and a patch is available: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/awt/jdk/raw-diff/89bc9d08fe82/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/X11/GtkFileDialogPeer.java Please consider applying it
*** Bug 881425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello Gianluca, Since a patch has been pushed upstream already, we need to wait for the fix to be backported in 7. I'll take care to ask for the backport asap. Thanks for reporting this, Mario
No movement on this in the last week, so I posted this for backport: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-April/006047.html
This was approved: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/885ad3351534 It's also now in IcedTea: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest/jdk/rev/885ad3351534 and should be included in the next security update.
Closing this bug now, since the back port has been done and released.