netbeans 24 will not start on java 24-ea due to security manager permanently disabled.

[homberghp]

Apache NetBeans version

Apache NetBeans 24 release candidate

What happened

Setting JAVA_HOME to java 24 (ea-25) make the netbeans startup (using the commandline) exit prematurely with the following message

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.Error: A command line option has attempted to allow or enable the Security Manager. Enabling a Security Manager is not supported.
	at java.lang.System.initPhase3(java.base@24-ea/System.java:2070)

Language / Project Type / NetBeans Component

netbeans startup

How to reproduce

Freshly install netbeans 24 rc 4 from zip to a dir, /usr/local/netbeans-24-rc4 in my case.
On linux then do : export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-24; /usr/local/netbeans-24-rc4/bin/netbeans

Did this work correctly in an earlier version?

No / Don't know

Operating System

Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

JDK

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24-ea+25-3155, mixed mode, sharing)

Apache NetBeans packaging

Apache NetBeans binary zip

Anything else

always on java 24

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

[homberghp]

A patch.

This might work. It is a hack. Disable the setting of the System.setSecurityManager in TopSecrurityManager, while leaving the remainder of the utility in the TopSecurityManager in tact. But one should prepare for final removal of said TopSecurityManager. It appears to work in ant tryme. Short test with create new maven javaproject and run that.

2 patches:

• For the TopSecurityManager, see below
• for the nbexec launcher. This is for the Unix variant only. Have not yet investigated windows. (Currently can't build on Windows)

Patch for nbexec

diff --git a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/launcher/unix/nbexec b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/launcher/unix/nbexec
index 1d6ad6e530..8b4a830836 100755
--- a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/launcher/unix/nbexec
+++ b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/launcher/unix/nbexec
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ fi
 # rename old heap dump to .old
 mv "${userdir}/var/log/heapdump.hprof" "${userdir}/var/log/heapdump.hprof.old" > /dev/null 2>&1
 
-jargs_without_clusters="$jargs -Djava.security.manager=allow"
+jargs_without_clusters="$jargs -Djava.security.manager=disallow"
 jargs="-Dnetbeans.dirs=\"${clusters}\" $jargs_without_clusters"
 
 if [ -z "$cachedirspecified" ]; then

Patch for the TopSecurityManager:

diff --git a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/TopSecurityManager.java b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/TopSecurityManager.java
index babb04da60..c89bd13f3d 100644
--- a/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/TopSecurityManager.java
+++ b/platform/o.n.bootstrap/src/org/netbeans/TopSecurityManager.java
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ import org.openide.util.WeakSet;
 * @author Ales Novak, Jesse Glick
 */
 public class TopSecurityManager extends SecurityManager {
+    /** Due to permanent deprecation of the java security manager we simply hack an instance,
+     so the utilities in this class are still available.
+     * 
+     * This is a HACK.
+     * This behaves as a eager singleton.
+     */
+    private static TopSecurityManager INSTANCE = new TopSecurityManager();
+    // end of hack.
+    
     private static final boolean check = !Boolean.getBoolean("netbeans.security.nocheck"); // NOI18N
     private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(TopSecurityManager.class.getName());
 
@@ -166,14 +175,14 @@ public class TopSecurityManager extends SecurityManager {
     
     static boolean officialExit = false;
     static Class<?>[] getStack() {
-        SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
-        TopSecurityManager t;
-        if (s instanceof TopSecurityManager) {
-            t = (TopSecurityManager)s;
-        } else {
-            t = new TopSecurityManager();
-        }
-        return t.getClassContext();
+//        SecurityManager s = System.getSecurityManager();
+//        TopSecurityManager t;
+//        if (s instanceof TopSecurityManager) {
+//            t = (TopSecurityManager)s;
+//        } else {
+//            t = new TopSecurityManager();
+//        }
+        return INSTANCE.getClassContext();
     }
     
     /** Can be called from core classes to exit the system.
@@ -521,15 +530,17 @@ public class TopSecurityManager extends SecurityManager {
     }
     
     public static void install() {
-        try {
-            System.setSecurityManager(new TopSecurityManager());
-        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
-            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Cannot associated own security manager"); // NOI18N
-            LOG.log(Level.INFO, "Cannot associated own security manager", ex); // NOI18N
-        }
+        // sec man is deprecated
+//        try {
+//            System.setSecurityManager(new TopSecurityManager());
+//        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
+//            LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Cannot associated own security manager"); // NOI18N
+//            LOG.log(Level.INFO, "Cannot associated own security manager", ex); // NOI18N
+//        }
     }
     static void uninstall() {
-        System.setSecurityManager(null);
+        // sec man is deprecated
+//        System.setSecurityManager(null);
     }
     
     /** Prohibits to set another SecurityManager */

[neilcsmith-net]

This is a known issue that needs to be resolved for NetBeans 25. See #3386 and #7928 for options under consideration.

NetBeans 24 will not support running on JDK 24. You might be able to remove the option in the launcher and just pass the system property to disable the security manager - shouldn't need to recompile, for Linux and macOS at least.

[homberghp]

Issue no longer relevant.

Recent pull of NetBeans sources and subsequent build no longer has the issue.
Propose to close the issue.

[hoijui]

I get this issue for Netbeans 24 (latest release) also on JDK 23 (don't have 24 installed). it does not happen with 17 (though there I have an other issue (grey screen of death)).