And probably you have networking problems (maybe something with proxies on your new machine), because when I put this into my browser, a license is downloaded, while in your log file this throws network errors:
http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/files/nbms/licenses/B2B74E56.license Gj On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:53 PM Geertjan Wielenga < geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Probably the problems are related to having NetBeans unzipped in this > folder: > > "C:\Users\ggreenbe\OneDrive - Visa Inc\Software\netbeans" > > Folders with spaces never work well on Windows. > > Gj > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:47 PM Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: > >> Because there are no installer for NB10, I couldn’t place it anywhere but >> under my home directory. >> >> So, I created C;\Users\...\Software folder and unpacked archive there. >> >> I certainly do have all privileges in my home directory. >> >> Just few minutes ago NB froze again and I had to kill it through task >> manager and restart. >> >> New log file doesn’t show any errors. Previous one does show multiple >> network timeouts from unsuccessful attempts to download plugins. >> >> BTW, can you please post URL for the current plugin portal? I will try to >> download some outside of IDE. >> >> *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:04 PM >> *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < >> users@netbeans.apache.org> >> *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 >> >> >> >> You keep removing the mailing list from your responses, please don’t, >> there’s many others who could be helping, but you keep excluding them. >> >> >> >> Sounds to me like there’s some problem with permissions or the general >> setup of your new machine, though it’s impossible to know. >> >> >> >> Maybe attach a log file — just keep the mailing list address in your >> responses, please. >> >> >> >> Gj >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 23:00, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, >> >> This one I am trying on Windows 10. Dell Precision 5520, 8 cores, 32GB RAM >> >> JDK 1.8-202 >> >> Regarding refreshing userdir – I started from the brand new machine. It >> had nothing in it. >> >> I started installing Chrome, JDK, Postman and Acrobat. Netbeans was the >> fifth piece of software installed. >> >> Userdir was supposed to be prestine. >> >> >> >> *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:52 AM >> *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com>; NetBeans Mailing List < >> users@netbeans.apache.org> >> *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 >> >> >> >> You claim to be “far from the noob”, yet you had to be told to refresh >> the userdir and you haven’t provided a description of your environment, >> e.g., the JDK you’re using. What gives? >> >> >> >> Gj >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 22:38, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: >> >> I did delete my userdir and restarted NB. >> >> Authentication request is now gone, but I still can’t change menu fonts. >> >> I tried to set it to size 12, 10 and even 5. No affect whatsoever. >> >> See attached screenshot. >> >> >> >> *From:* Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 8:32 PM >> *To:* Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> >> *Cc:* NetBeans Mailing List <users@netbeans.apache.org> >> *Subject:* Re: Trying out NB10 >> >> >> >> Can you start with a fresh user directory? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Gj >> >> >> >> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 04:03, Greenberg, Gary <ggree...@visa.com> wrote: >> >> My previous laptop broke, so I got completely new one and trying to build >> my development environment from scratch. >> >> Instead of NB8.2 which was working for me (with some glitches) for >> several years I got the latest Netbeans 10 from netbeans.apache.org >> >> First start was unsuccessful. It displayed the start page and froze. Did >> not respond to anything. I had to kill the process through the task manager. >> >> Second attempt was a bit better. At least it did not freeze. However, all >> menus were displayed in huge font that occupy half of the screen. >> >> I went to Options->Fonts and Colors and tried to change the font from >> size 27 to size 12. I was not able to do that as Netbeans popped me >> “Authentication Required” >> >> window. No idea why it require authentication but I wasn’t able to do it. >> I tried my login credentials or the one I used to register a while back on >> netbeans.org but neither worked. >> >> Same thing happened when I tried to change some other settings. Can some >> kind soul tell me how do I authenticate there. >> >> For the same reason I wasn’t able to download a single plugin. Download >> failed due to connection problems with plugin portal. When I tried to check >> proxy settings I got the same >> >> “Authentication Required”. >> >> So far NB10 wasn’t useful for me. >> >> I am far from the noob, only with Netbeans I am working for 20 years >> (even before Sun Microsystems acquired it), but this release looks >> half-baked to me. >> >> I do understand that Apache incubation will cause some disturbances, but >> did not expect so many problems. >> >>
