Bug#891957: netbeans no starting "loading module" modules.netbinox NullPointerException

[Gustavo Castro]

Package: netbeans
Version: 8.1+dfsg3-4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Tags: a11y

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_NI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_NI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=es_NI:es (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages netbeans depends on:
ii  default-jdk [java8-sdk]    2:1.8-59
ii  libnb-apisupport3-java     8.1+dfsg3-4
ii  libnb-ide14-java           8.1+dfsg3-4
ii  libnb-java5-java           8.1+dfsg3-4
ii  libnb-platform18-java      8.1+dfsg1-7
ii  openjdk-8-jdk [java8-sdk]  8u151-b12-1

netbeans recommends no packages.

netbeans suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

 >Log Session: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:19:51 PM CST
 >System Info:
   Product Version         = NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 20180221-debian-8.1)
   Operating System        = Linux version 4.15.0-1-amd64 running on amd64
   Java; VM; Vendor        = 1.8.0_151; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 
25.151-b12; Oracle Corporation
   Runtime                 = OpenJDK Runtime Environment 
1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-1-b12
   Java Home               = /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
   System Locale; Encoding = es_NI (nb); UTF-8
   Home Directory          = /home/gacs
   Current Directory       = /home/gacs
   User Directory          = /home/gacs/.netbeans/8.1
   Cache Directory         = /home/gacs/.cache/netbeans/8.1
   Installation            = /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/nb
                             /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/ide
                             /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/java
                             /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/apisupport
                             /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/harness
                             /usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform
   Boot & Ext. Classpath   = 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/resources.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jce.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/classes:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/nashorn.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/cldrdata.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/icedtea-sound.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/jaccess.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/java-atk-wrapper.jar
   Application Classpath   = 
/usr/share/java/jcodings.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/lib/boot.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/lib/org-openide-modules.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/lib/org-openide-util.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/lib/org-openide-util-lookup.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/lib/org-openide-util-ui.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/lib/dt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/lib/tools.jar
   Startup Classpath       = 
/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/core-base.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/core.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/org-openide-filesystems-compat8.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/org-openide-filesystems.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/org-netbeans-libs-asm.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/platform/core/asm-all-5.0.1.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/nb/core/org-netbeans-upgrader.jar:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/nb/core/locale/core_nb.jar
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INFO [org.netbeans.modules.netbinox]: Install area set to 
file:/usr/share/netbeans/8.1/
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at 
org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.BaseAdaptor.initializeStorage(BaseAdaptor.java:123)
     at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.<init>(Framework.java:192)
     at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.EquinoxLauncher.internalInit(EquinoxLauncher.java:67)
     at 
org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.EquinoxLauncher.init(EquinoxLauncher.java:37)
     at org.eclipse.osgi.launch.Equinox.init(Equinox.java:178)
     at org.netbeans.modules.netbinox.Netbinox.init(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.core.netigso.Netigso.prepare(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.NetigsoHandle.turnOn(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.enable(Unknown Source)
INFO [null]: Last record repeated again.
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.installNew(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleList.trigger(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.ModuleSystem.restore(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.getModuleSystem(Unknown Source)
INFO [null]: Last record repeated again.
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Unknown Source)
     at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)