Bug#894715: netbeans doesn't start (and exits with error code 2)

[Markus Koschany]

Am 03.04.2018 um 14:45 schrieb Pierre Thierry:
> Package: netbeans
> Version: 8.1+dfsg3-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> With a fresh install of the package, I get the following (and error
> code 2)
> 
> $ netbeans
> WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
> WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory (file:/usr/share/netbeans/platform18/lib/boot.jar) to field java.net.URL.handler
> WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory
> WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
> WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
> 
> The startup window appears, says "Initializing..." then disappears and
> the process exits.

[...]

Hello,

Netbeans 8.1 won't work with Java 9 or later. We have to wait for the
next upstream release which will hopefully address all runtime issues.
Netbeans is also affected by Debian bug #891957. For now I guess the
only way to make it work in testing/unstable is to revert back to
OpenJDK 8 via update-alternatives --config java and to install
libequinox-osgi-java 3.8.1 from snapshots.debian.org.

Regards,

Markus

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