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Fails to load and null ptr deref on exit on Ghidra 11.2.1

Open novafacing opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug

Cartographer doesn't load (no menu options) on Ghidra 11.2.1, and throws an exception when Ghidra quits:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "ghidra.framework.main.FrontEndService.addProjectListener(ghidra.framework.model.ProjectListener)" because "frontEnd" is null
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "ghidra.framework.main.FrontEndService.addProjectListener(ghidra.framework.model.ProjectListener)" because "frontEnd" is null
	at ghidra.framework.plugintool.Plugin.cleanup(Plugin.java:288)
	at ghidra.framework.plugintool.PluginManager.dispose(PluginManager.java:105)
	at ghidra.framework.plugintool.PluginTool.dispose(PluginTool.java:515)
	at ghidra.framework.main.FrontEndTool.dispose(FrontEndTool.java:170)
	at ghidra.framework.plugintool.PluginTool.close(PluginTool.java:1212)
	at docking.DockingWindowManager.close(DockingWindowManager.java:1184)
	at docking.RootNode$JFrameWindowWrapper$1.windowClosing(RootNode.java:814)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.windowClosing(AWTEventMulticaster.java:357)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.processWindowEvent(Window.java:2085)
	at java.desktop/javax.swing.JFrame.processWindowEvent(JFrame.java:298)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.processEvent(Window.java:2044)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4996)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2324)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2780)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4828)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:775)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:720)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:714)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:400)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:98)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$5.run(EventQueue.java:747)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$5.run(EventQueue.java:745)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:400)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:744)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:203)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "ghidra.framework.main.FrontEndService.addProjectListener(ghidra.framework.model.ProjectListener)" because "frontEnd" is null
	at ghidra.app.plugin.debug.DomainFolderChangesDisplayPlugin.dispose(DomainFolderChangesDisplayPlugin.java:63)
	at ghidra.framework.plugintool.Plugin.cleanup(Plugin.java:277)
	... 31 more

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Build Cartographer against Ghidra 11.2.1
  2. Open Ghidra
  3. See there are no menu options in the Tool menu
  4. Close Ghidra
  5. See the crash exception

Expected behavior

Works as normal.

novafacing avatar Nov 22 '24 23:11 novafacing

I tried to build for Ghidra 11.3 and I am not able to see the menu options in the "Tool menu" and the "Windows" menu.

0xd3xt3r avatar Mar 23 '25 06:03 0xd3xt3r

Just built for 11.3.2, works with no issues

ghidra_11.3.2_DEV_20250621_Cartographer.zip

chf0x avatar Jun 21 '25 18:06 chf0x

Just built for 11.3.2, works with no issues

ghidra_11.3.2_DEV_20250621_Cartographer.zip

have you tried with 11.4.2?

psparc82 avatar Sep 12 '25 13:09 psparc82