> > Whenever I see an intermittent bug like this, though, my instinct is to > avoid changing my configuration, in case the bug stops being reproducible. > Then I will never know what caused it, or when it will return... >
Very interesting perspective. Never thought of it like that -- though it would help if it could be narrowed down some other way though. Gj On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:17 PM Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote: > > However, I'm still of the view that trying to reproduce with a > non-distro JDK build is useful. I've had distro builds that behave > differently, crash in odd places, and even manage to run more than one EDT > at the same time. > > Ah, OK. I can see that it would be ideal to see thread dumps with the > crash from a "vanilla" OpenJDK or Zulu distribution. > > Whenever I see an intermittent bug like this, though, my instinct is to > avoid changing my configuration, in case the bug stops being reproducible. > Then I will never know what caused it, or when it will return... > > -- Eirik > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil C Smith <neilcsm...@apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 4:25 PM > To: dev <dev@netbeans.apache.org> > Subject: Re: How to diagnose lock up with 12.5 Beta 1 > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 15:09, Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote: > > > > But if the problem goes away with a different JDK, that doesn't mean the > bug is in the JDK--it just means the bug cannot be reproduced. > > > > For example, if two different NetBeans threads acquire nested locks in > > opposite order, that would be a deadlock bug- > > True, and pointed out one possible sign of that happening already. > > However, I'm still of the view that trying to reproduce with a non-distro > JDK build is useful. I've had distro builds that behave differently, crash > in odd places, and even manage to run more than one EDT at the same time. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
