Netbeans fails to start (Command not Found) on MacOSX

Question

I've installed Netbeans 6.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.5.8 successfully, but when I try start it up it doesn't and these log entries are logged in System.log:

Apr  7 19:35:09 henrique-ordines-macbook [0x0-0x9c09c].NetBeans 6.0.1[53785]: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.0.1.app/Contents/MacOS/netbeans: line 48: ls: command not found
Apr  7 19:35:09 henrique-ordines-macbook [0x0-0x9c09c].NetBeans 6.0.1[53785]: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.0.1.app/Contents/MacOS/netbeans: line 53: dirname: command not found
Apr  7 19:35:09 henrique-ordines-macbook [0x0-0x9c09c].NetBeans 6.0.1[53785]: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.0.1.app/Contents/MacOS/netbeans: line 57: dirname: command not found
Apr  7 19:35:09 henrique-ordines-macbook [0x0-0x9c09c].NetBeans 6.0.1[53785]: Cannot read cluster file: /../etc/netbeans.clusters
Apr  7 19:35:09 henrique-ordines-macbook com.apple.launchd[65] ([0x0-0x9c09c].NetBeans 6.0.1[53785]): Exited with exit code: 1

I've repaired permissions using Disk Utility, as suggested on this thread, but I still get the same error.

If I log in as the Root user I can start it without problems.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

As described on this thread, the "ls command not found" error was happening because my PATH environment variable had been broken somehow. By me in this case, uhem, anyway, once you've fixed that variable so that this part /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin can also be in the PATH variable, Netbeans works again.