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Hi Ethan- > Full Name: Ethan Davis > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Unidata > Package Version: 2.6a2 build date:2008-07-11 07:06 UTC > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05 version: 1.6.0_05 > j3d:1.3.2 fcs (build12) > Description of problem: Hi, > I was starting the IDV from this URL > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly/webstart/IDV/idv.jnlp > > Got to the IDV 2.6 a2 startup window then got fatal error > > Fatal error initializing resources > ucar/nc2/util/xml/RuntimeConfigParser > > Details said NoClassFound. For some reason, webstart doesn't always clear out the old cached idvbase.jnlp classes. So it still points to the old nc2.2.jar instead of ncIdv.jar. You'll need to clear out IDV from your Web Start cache. You can do this by opening: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/webstart/IDV/player.jnlp finding the IDV entry and deleting it. Don > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ucar/nc2/util/xml/RuntimeConfigParser > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.loadIospResources(DataManager.java:491) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.initResources(DataManager.java:299) > at ucar.unidata.idv.StateManager.initState(StateManager.java:452) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.<init>(IntegratedDataViewer.java:312) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.<init>(IntegratedDataViewer.java:233) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.<init>(DefaultIdv.java:82) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.main(DefaultIdv.java:144) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > ucar.nc2.util.xml.RuntimeConfigParser > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) > ... 16 more > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VWU-779010 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open