I've seen a bug report about this, and I think there was a guy on this forum at some point who raised this as an issue.
My C2D MacBook (10.5.6) has no issue, and I've been running Netbeans 6.1 thru 6.5 (betas, Nightlies and release) I had a similar issue with Eclipse for a while, crashed under 64 bit Java 1.6, had to force it to run with 32 bit Java 1.5 Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > netbeans on mac os x will actually cause an immediate segfault. After > much googling, I found this complete voodoo solution, which actually > *STRIPS OUT* the x64 support in the java executable and replaces the > existing one with it (yes, futzing about with files in /System, which > is verboten). Then it works. > > How could this possibly be? > > NB: If you don't have a 64-bit cpu in your mac, you should definitely > not run into this problem, but for everyone else, it seems like this > problem should happen on all 64-bit macs, no? > > The solution - run the following in terminal: > > lipo /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/ > bin/java \ > -remove x86_64 -output /tmp/java > sudo mv /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/ > Home/bin/java \ > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/ > java-x86_64 > sudo mv /tmp/java /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ > 1.5.0/Home/bin/java-32 > sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/ > Home/bin/java-32 \ > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/ > java > > via http://blogs.sun.com/yakshaving/entry/netbeans_will_not_start_on --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
