Null Point Exception trying to open Sagetv.xml

[PLUCKYHD]

Someone talk me off this cliff...I copied some things from one stv and closed it opened another stv and pasted it. All was working well until I closed and tried to reopen it I got a java null point exception error in studio and it won't open. The log shows allot of swing errors but doesn't really show where the error is. I know I should have had a backup but I didn't and looks like I may lose about 3 days worth of work so kind of frustrated. I went into the xml itself and completely took out the part I pasted in and that still didn't do the trick any ideas?

[tmiranda]

Plucky,

I can't say I've ever had any luck with cut and paste in Studio. I always use the export/import functions instead.

Any time I've had the "null pointer exception" I lost all of my work too

Tom

[PLUCKYHD]

Well I have found this entry in the log

Fri 6/25 14:17:53.602 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] ERROR Cannot find translation file for STV:java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name STVs\SageTV7\SageTV7_i18n, locale 
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.000 [AWTThreadWatcher-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@1f10a67] EventThread-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI Hang Detected - hang time = 751
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.108 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] UIMgr done loading UI from: C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\SageTV7-1.14.xml
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.114 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" Fri 6/25 14:17:54.114 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] java.lang.NullPointerException
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.115 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at tv.sage.b.j.q(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.115 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at tv.sage.b.j.b(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.116 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at tv.sage.b.k.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.117 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at tv.sage.c.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.117 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at sage.UIManager.F(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.118 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at sage.UIManager.run(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.118 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.119 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.119 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.120 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.120 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.121 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.121 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.122 [AWT-EventQueue-0@1d1e730] 	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.122 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@a23610] VF processing job null nPlayin=false
Fri 6/25 14:17:54.123 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@a23610] VF thread is now waiting for 0:00:00.000

seems to probably be the issue now the question how do I fix it....

[GKusnick]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...27&postcount=3

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...27&postcount=3

Thanks greg it actually dawned on me to check for oprhans on the main menu panel in the xml itself and I found some got rid of those and all was right with the world again. Will keep you tips in mind

thanks again.

[jaminben]

I take it you've already over written the auto backup file? These normally catch the error before they happen and if your lucky enough and copy the backup out and rename it before you try to load/overwrite the file again you only loose a small amount of work.

e.g Example.xml.bak

Cheers

Ben

EDIT

You fixed it as I was posting.
Oh, well....all's well that ends well