Studio 11 still freezing

Question

This posting is a follow-up to the Mar 1 posting entitled:
Studio 11 freezes when using external editor. Gordon kindly
responded to that posting with a request for instructions on
how to recreate the problem. Those instructions follow.
1. Create a directory containing the makefile and two source
files appended to this posting.
2. Run Studio 11.
3. Set the External Editor to be GVIM.
4. Build the executable from the appended files.
5. Load the resulting program into the debugger.
6. Run (e.g.) "func getCtype" in the debugger window.
All Studio 11 (sub)windows freeze except the GVIM window.
This happens consistently on two machines at our site. Here
are the details from one of them:
Sun Studio 11: (Build 20050910)
IDE Versioning: IDE/1 spec=3.42.1 impl=20050910
SunOS host 5.9 Generic_118558-19 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
Java: 1.5.0_01
VM: Java HotSpot Client VM 1.5.0_01-b08
Here are the Studio 11 processes left running after the freeze:
host{user}: ps -ef | grep -i studio
user 15363 588 0 12:03:24 pts/4 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/SunStudio/SUNWspro/bin/sunstudio
user 15414 15398 1 12:05:03 pts/4 0:01 /usr/local/Studio11/SUNWspro/bin/gvim -n -nb -fg #000000 -bg #ffffff -xrm
user 15411 15398 1 12:04:59 pts/11 0:01 /usr/local/Studio11/SUNWspro/bin/../prod/bin/sparcv9/dbx -g sync,stdio -c
user 15398 15363 0 12:03:26 pts/4 0:40 //bin/java -classpath /usr/local/Studio11/netbeans/3.5V11/lib/ext/boot.jar
Thanks for looking into this.
Gary Hall
*************** start bootype.cpp ***************
This file is a part of the OsiDylp LP distribution.
Copyright (C) 2005 Lou Hafer
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
[email protected]
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St., Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Simple C++ program to determine the size of a bool.
Rather than go through the bother required to get this string into the
binary, we'll settle for a comment.
sccs: sccsid[] = "@(#)booltype.cpp 1.2 09/25/04" ;
svn/cvs: svnid[] = "$Id: booltype.cpp 22 2005-11-09 02:51:34Z lou $" ;
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
extern "C" const char *getCtype(int bytes) ;
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{ bool verbose = false ;
if (argc > 1)
{ if (argc == 2 && argv[1] == static_cast<std::string>("-v"))
verbose = true ;
else
{ std::cout << "usage: " << argv[0] << " [-v]\n" << std::endl ; ;
exit (1) ; } }
if (verbose)
{ std::cout << "C++ bool is " << sizeof(bool) << " bytes." << std::endl ;
std::cout << "Matching C type is "
<< getCtype(sizeof(bool)) << std::endl ; }
std::cout << getCtype(sizeof(bool)) ;
exit (0) ; }
*************** end bootype.cpp ***************
*************** start boolequiv.c ***************
This file is a part of the OsiDylp LP distribution.
Copyright (C) 2005 Lou Hafer
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
[email protected]
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St., Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Rather than go through the bother required to get this string into the
binary, we'll settle for a comment.
sccs: sccsid[] = "@(#)boolequiv.c 1.1 10/18/02" ;
cvs/svn: svnid[] = "$Id: boolequiv.c 22 2005-11-09 02:51:34Z lou $" ;
This routine accepts a single numeric parameter and matches it to the
appropriate C data type. It's used with boolcheck.cpp to return the variable
type that should be used to define BOOL in the makefile.
const char *getCtype (int bytes)
{ if (bytes == sizeof(char))
return ("char") ;
else
if (bytes == sizeof(int))
return ("int") ;
else
if (bytes == sizeof(short int))
return ("short int") ;
else
if (bytes == sizeof(long int))
return ("long int") ;
else
return ("<error>") ; }
*************** start boolequiv.c ***************
*************** start makefile ****************
booltype: boolequiv.c booltype.cpp
cc -g -c -o boolequiv.o boolequiv.c
CC -g -c -o booltype.o booltype.cpp
CC -g -o booltype booltype.o boolequiv.o
clean:
rm booltype booltype.o boolequiv.o
*************** end makefile ****************

Answer 1

Hi Gordon,
You neglected to put the path to the tuning parameters page in your posting.
I found http://performance.netbeans.org/howto/jvmswitches/index.html. Was
this the one? It refers to a netbeans.conf file. I have one in system-wide (NFS
mounted) installation of netbeans-4.0 but cannot find one in the Studio11
netbeans directory.
I neglected to use --userdir when conducting my previous test. When
I do, the problem disappears.
Here's a diff of the ide.log files from the two runs (>: with --userdir, <: without):
2c2
< >Log Session: Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:18:10 o'clock PM PDT
Log Session: Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:09:53 o'clock PM PDT11c11
< IDE Install; User Dir = /usr/local/Studio11/netbeans/3.5V11; /home/user/.sunstudio/11-SunOS-sparc
IDE Install; User Dir = /usr/local/Studio11/netbeans/3.5V11; /tmp/xyz18,19d17
< org.netbeans.core/1 [1.12.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.core.windows/1 [1.1.1 20050910]
22a21,23
org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser/1 [0.7.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.core/1 [1.12.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.settings/1 [1.3.1]28,29d28
< org.netbeans.core.execution/1 [1.2.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.modules.debugger.core/3 [2.8.1 20050910]
31a31
org.netbeans.core.execution/1 [1.2.1 20050910]33,40c33,34
< org.netbeans.core.ui/1 [1.1.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.modules.externaleditor [1.4 20050910]
< org.openidex.util/2 [2.6.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.modules.settings/1 [1.3.1]
< org.netbeans.modules.utilities/1 [1.13.1 20050910]
< com.sun.tools.swdev.toolscommon [1.15 ${buildnumber}]
< org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate/1 [2.7.1 20050910]
< com.sun.tools.swdev.sunstudio/1 [1.2 051013]
com.sun.ffj.modules.registration/1 [1.4.1 2005/10/13]
com.sun.tools.xdplugin/7 [8.2 20051013]41a36,40
org.netbeans.core.ide/1 [1.2.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.group/1 [0.1.1 20050910]
com.sun.tools.swdev.toolscommon [1.15 ${buildnumber}]
com.sun.forte.st.mpmt/1 [8.2]
org.openidex.util/2 [2.6.1 20050910]44,45c43,46
< org.netbeans.modules.welcome/1 [1.4.1 20050910]
< com.sun.forte.st.mpmt/1 [8.2]
org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate/1 [2.7.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.debugger.core/3 [2.8.1 20050910]
com.sun.tools.swdev.javadisabler/1 [1.2 051013]
org.netbeans.modules.usersguide/1 [1.12.1 20050910]47c48,49
< org.netbeans.core.ide/1 [1.2.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.utilities/1 [1.13.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.text/1 [1.11.1 20050910]48a51,55
org.netbeans.modules.externaleditor [1.4 20050910]
org.netbeans.core.windows/1 [1.1.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.core.ui/1 [1.1.1 20050910]
org.netbeans.modules.welcome/1 [1.4.1 20050910]
com.sun.tools.swdev.sunstudio/1 [1.2 051013]50,53d56
< org.netbeans.modules.text/1 [1.11.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.modules.usersguide/1 [1.12.1 20050910]
< org.netbeans.modules.group/1 [0.1.1 20050910]
< com.sun.tools.swdev.javadisabler/1 [1.2 051013]
55,57d57
< com.sun.ffj.modules.registration/1 [1.4.1 2005/10/13]
< org.netbeans.modules.extbrowser/1 [0.7.1 20050910]
< com.sun.tools.xdplugin/7 [8.2 20051013]
60,61d59
< Failed once...
< Failed once...
Gary