SmartDashboard Crashing

[seg9585]

Is anyone else having trouble getting the 2016 installed SmartDashboard to stay loaded? My SmartDashboard is crashing upon loading (including when opening from the wpilib/tools directory). I'm not sure where to locate any logs about the problem. Old 2015 versions of SmartDashboard work (but won't interface with the latest DS) and the SFX/RobotBuilder apps load fine.

If anyone ran into this problem and have any troubleshooting ideas to try, let me know!

[Peter Johnson]

If anyone ran into this problem and have any troubleshooting ideas to try, let me know!

The first troubleshooting step would be to run it from a command prompt so you can get a crash backtrace:
1) Run cmd.exe. This should open a command prompt to your home directory (C:\Users\...).
2) "cd wpilib\tools"
3) "java -jar SmartDashboard.jar"

This should start up SmartDashboard with console output, printing things like "No Extension Folder" and "platform: /Windows/amd64/". When the crash occurs, you should get a backtrace or at least something output... and post it here!

[seg9585]

Hi Peter, nice to hear from you.

See attached image. It appears to have to do with loading the widgets. Would this indicate an issue with my Java install? Do I need to install an update to a plug-in? (I already downloaded all the FRC java plugin updates)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19752&stc=1&d=1452915450

[Joe Ross]

Hi Peter, nice to hear from you.

See attached image. It appears to have to do with loading the widgets. Would this indicate an issue with my Java install? Do I need to install an update to a plug-in? (I already downloaded all the FRC java plugin updates)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19752&stc=1&d=1452915450

Did you install the plugins released today? It had a change that may fix this.

[seg9585]

Resolved! Yeah today's plugin updated fixed it! Thanks for the heads up.