I've heard of (but not experienced myself) a hang like this, related to proxy servers: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-58
Which Java version are you on? Could you try upgrading to Java 14, which was recently released? -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Bergh <bergh.jonat...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:26 PM To: dev@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Netbeans GUI unresponsive hi, I have just started running into problems with NB not starting? The only thing i have changed since working all day at work (on IDE) is running VS Installer update (not VS itself). I've restarted twice, not change. Clearing cache has not fixed it. Any ideas? System: JDK 11.0.2 Amazon Corretto, Win10 Attached is part of the log: INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System network proxy resolver: Windows INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.windows.WindowsNetworkProxy]: Windows system proxy resolver: auto detect INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System network proxy reloading succeeded. INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System network proxy - mode: direct INFO [org.netbeans.core.network.proxy.NetworkProxyReloader]: System network proxy: fell to default (correct if direct mode went before) WARNING [org.openide.filesystems.Ordering]: Found same position 300 for both Debugger/LocalsView/Toolbar/org-exbin-bined-netbeans-debug-BinaryDebugButton.instance and Debugger/LocalsView/Toolbar/org-netbeans-modules-debugger-ui-views-VariablesViewButtons-createNewWatchButton.instance WARNING [org.netbeans.TopSecurityManager]: use of system property netbeans.home has been obsoleted in favor of InstalledFileLocator/Places at org.netbeans.modules.java.j2seplatform.platformdefinition.Util.removeNBArtifacts(Util.java:337) INFO [org.netbeans.core.CLIOptions2]: EQ stuck in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main] org.netbeans.core.CLIOptions2$EQStuck: GUI is not responsive at java.base@11.0.2/java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) at java.base@11.0.2/java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:328) at org.netbeans.modules.projectapi.nb.NbProjectManager$2.run(NbProjectManager.java:241) at org.netbeans.modules.projectapi.nb.NbProjectManager$2.run(NbProjectManager.java:218) at app//org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.DefaultMutexImplementation.readAccess(DefaultMutexImplementation.java:188) at app//org.openide.util.Mutex.readAccess(Mutex.java:225) at org.netbeans.modules.projectapi.nb.NbProjectManager.findProject(NbProjectManager.java:218) at org.netbeans.api.project.ProjectManager.findProject(ProjectManager.java:142) at org.netbeans.modules.projectapi.SimpleFileOwnerQueryImplementation.getOwner(SimpleFileOwnerQueryImplementation.java:136) at org.netbeans.api.project.FileOwnerQuery.getOwner(FileOwnerQuery.java:91) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.ActionsUtil.getProjectsFromLookup(ActionsUtil.java:71) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction.selection(MainProjectAction.java:153) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction.access$000(MainProjectAction.java:49) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction$2.run(MainProjectAction.java:170) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction.refreshView(MainProjectAction.java:202) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction.refresh(MainProjectAction.java:220) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.LookupSensitiveAction.doRefresh(LookupSensitiveAction.java:172) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.LookupSensitiveAction.isEnabled(LookupSensitiveAction.java:114) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.MainProjectAction.isEnabled(MainProjectAction.java:49) at org.openide.awt.Actions$ButtonBridge.updateState(Actions.java:1176) at org.openide.awt.Actions$Bridge.addNotify(Actions.java:961) at org.openide.awt.Actions$Bridge$VisL.propertyChange(Actions.java:999)