Open Shell on EC2 causes null pointer exception

[jwarder]

When right clicking on an EC2 instance and clicking "Open Shell" throws a null pointer exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.PlatformUtils.getPuttyGenConversionExecutable(PlatformUtils.java:207) at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.PlatformUtils.openRemoteShellFromWindows(PlatformUtils.java:194) at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.PlatformUtils.openShellToRemoteHost(PlatformUtils.java:150) at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.ui.views.instances.OpenShellAction.openInstanceShell(OpenShellAction.java:82) at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.ui.views.instances.OpenShellAction.openInstanceShell(OpenShellAction.java:51) at com.amazonaws.eclipse.ec2.ui.views.instances.OpenShellAction.run(OpenShellAction.java:46) at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:473) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:565) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.lambda$4(ActionContributionItem.java:397) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:86) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4428) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1079) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4238) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3817) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$5.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1155) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1044) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:153) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.lambda$3(Workbench.java:680) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:336) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:594) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:148) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:151) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243) 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 org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:653) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:590) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1499)

eclipse.buildId=4.7.0.I20170612-0950 java.version=1.8.0_101 java.vendor=Oracle Corporation BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_GB Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -data file:/C:/Users/GCUK-JW/workspaces/eclipse-workspace/ -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product

[zhangzhx]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I could reproduce this on Windows. I will take a look and submit a fix in the next release. Will let you know once it is fixed.

[zhangzhx]

This bug has been fixed in the latest release v201708161930.