As I already filled an issue on netbeans website and it seems to be a build problem : The problem is that the IDE get completely frozen once a css file is opened : both already existing CSS and newly created CSS file cause the IDE the freeze. The only solution I have to resume working on my project is killing the IDE and restarting it. Once a CSS file has been selected, the navigator panel view seems to correctly display the CSS file structure. The freeze occurs when trying to display the content of the file in the editor by opening it : no or only few parts of the CSS file seems to get syntax coloring : comments and sometimes random parts of the CSS. My CSS aren't malformated since even editor-generated and empty css file cause the hang to happen. Here is maybe something related in message.log (last line) : Compiler: HotSpot 64-Bit Server Compiler Heap memory usage: initial 32.0MB maximum 357.4MB Non heap memory usage: initial 34.4MB maximum 248.0MB Garbage collector: PS Scavenge (Collections=11 Total time spent=0s) Garbage collector: PS MarkSweep (Collections=1 Total time spent=0s) Classes: loaded=5854 total loaded=5854 unloaded 0 INFO [org.netbeans.core.ui.warmup.DiagnosticTask]: Total memory 2'109'620'224 ATTENTION [global]: Error in source for css properties model for property: z-index Information about my system : Product Version = NetBeans IDE 6.5 (Build 090125) Operating System = Linux version 2.6.28-gentoo running on amd64 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_12-ea; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 11.2-b01; Sun Microsystems Inc. Runtime = Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.6.0_12-ea-b02 Java Home = /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.12_beta2/jre System Locale; Encoding = fr_CH (nb); UTF-8 Installation = /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/nb6.5 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/ide10 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/java2 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/xml2 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/webcommon1 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/websvccommon1 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/enterprise5 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/gsf1 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/php1 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/visualweb2 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/harness /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/groovy1 /usr/share/netbeans-6.5/platform9 Note that I tried with beta3 version and also sun-jdk-1.5.0.17, the problem remain the same. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch netbeans 2.Open a project 3.Open a css file, or create a new one Actual Results: The IDE get frozen, without responding to anything. The only way to resume work is killing the application and restarting. Expected Results: It should open and syntax highlight the css file in the editor. I tried to downgrade to java 1.5 : no change. Installing the binary distribution from netbeans website fix it, it seems to be a problem with the source version.
Created attachment 179767 [details] thread dump (same as the one on netbeans issue website)
Well, I had the same problem with the upstream build: http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?platform=linux&lang=en&option=all&version=6.5 so it is not problem of our build but problem of netbeans itself. I got freezes on both empty css files and non-empty css files. Yesterday I forgot it causes the freeze and I accidentally opened some css file and there was no freeze, the css file opened without problems. Since then I do not have the freeze problem.
Just to add to the confusion, I was getting this issue with the gentoo install: [ebuild N ] dev-util/netbeans-6.5-r4 USE="-debug -doc" LINGUAS="-de -es -fr -it -ja -pl -pt_BR -ru -sq -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee javamobility nb php soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml -cnd -profiler" 285,642 kB ...but not with the upstream download which I just grabbed today. Both were fully updated (via the built-in updater). There are some differences I should mention though: 1) My gentoo install had most modules installed, whereas I chose just the PHP pack for download from netbeans.org. 2) With the gentoo install I'd added the jMaki Ajax Framework plugin (not the j2ee part, just the js); I haven't added this on the upstream install. I'm quite busy _using_ netbeans ATM so I'm afraid I won't be able to reinstall the gentoo package for tests in the near future, but let me know if there's any other info that might be helpful.
i've got the same problem, i've tried to recompile more than one time, same result. this is happening to me in 2 different pcs. Reading the above comment i've tried to recompile without some modules, (even tough the dependencies make me reinsert most of them) same result, the ide still froze. If some technical info may be usefull i will post them, but from what i read here the problem is quite widespread..
Just for additional info, since i really need an IDE working i've tried other solution, downloading ONLY THE PHP version of netbeans from the official size and installing it, it works with css
Same freezing issues with netbeans here....
Same problem here with both 6.5-r4 and 6.7_beta.
Fixed in 6.7_beta. The problem was caused by system flyingsaucer (core-renderer.jar) used with netbeans which caused deadlock on java logging. I will not fix it in netbeans 6.5 as it will be removed when netbeans 6.7 is out (which should be in June), also netbeans 6.5 will never be stabilized. I suggest to use netbeans 6.7 beta which seems to be stable enough and better than 6.5, also in 6.7 ebuild there are fixed other problems that occur with 6.5.
