# Designer does not let me enter a project name, seems frozen

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-does-not-let-me-enter-a-project-name-seems-frozen/10029>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 15, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-does-not-let-me-enter-a-project-name-seems-frozen/10029 "2015-05-15T16:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![LenRem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LenRem](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/LenRem)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-does-not-let-me-enter-a-project-name-seems-frozen/10029/1 "2015-05-15T16:50:14Z")

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Hi all,  
I installed Ignition on Debian Jessie, with oracle java 8.  
Gateway starts fine. I can connect to mysql (empty database) and to the Dairy demo.  
When I start designer, I can login, I get an Open/Create dialog, but it appears complety frozen. I cannot enter a project name, I cannot close the dialog (except using kill-kill).  
The Gateway reports an open Designer session.  
If i launch Designer.jnlp from the command line, I get this:

```auto
len@lendeb:~/.local/share/applications$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/javaws -localfile -J-Djnlp.application.href=http://localhost:8088/main/system/launch/designer/designer.jnlp /home/len/.java/deployment/cache/6.0/50/776c0f72-1ee0edef
len@lendeb:~/.local/share/applications$ Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0

Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-XAWT"
```

Some version info:

> [@](#):
>
> System Status  
> System Properties  
> Context State Running  
> Redundancy Mode Independent  
> Redundancy State Active  
> Version 7.7.4 (b2015033012)  
> Java Version Oracle Corporation 1.8.0\_45  
> CPU % 59.2  
> Memory (used/max) 96 mb / 1,016 mb  
> Uptime 1 hours, 33 minutes, 53 seconds  
> Timezone America/Kralendijk [GMT-4:00]  
> Locale en\_US  
> Java Library Path /usr/local/bin/ignition/lib:lib/core/gateway:/var/lib/ignition/temp/

What can I do?  
Thanks,  
Len.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-does-not-let-me-enter-a-project-name-seems-frozen/10029/2 "2015-05-15T16:54:36Z")

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This is a known issue with webstart on linux. I think the workaround is to use the native client launcher.