VisualVM crashes on mac - visualvm

Question

I'm facing some trouble working on VisualVM on Mac.
Whenever I run the visualvm app (either from the app installed or by going to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jvisualvm (unix executable file) it opens the terminal, for a moment visualvm also starts and then the following is printed in the terminal and visualvm closes
Last login: Thu Dec 7 22:15:06 on ttys000
Kingshuks-MacBook-Pro:~ kingshuk$ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jvisualvm ; exit;
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
[Process completed]
I have recently upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra. I think I have used visualvm before this upgrade, might be once or twice though.
Any help to resolve this issue would be great..!! Please let me know if any additional information is needed.
I tried to use
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jvisualvm -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true but got the following error. Guess this is because I don't have netbeans installed??
Last login: Sat Dec 9 16:21:57 on console
Kingshuks-MacBook-Pro:~ kingshuk$ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/‌Home/bin/jvisualvm -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true
-bash: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/‌​Home/bin/jvisualvm: No such file or directory
Kingshuks-MacBook-Pro:~ kingshuk$ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/jvisualvm -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true
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>Log Session: Saturday, December 9, 2017 4:41:03 PM EST
>System Info:
Product Version = Java VisualVM
Operating System = Mac OS X version 10.13.1 running on x86_64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.8.0_152; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.152-b16; Oracle Corporation
Runtime = Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_152-b16
Java Home = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
System Locale; Encoding = en_US (visualvm); UTF-8
Home Directory = /Users/kingshuk
Current Directory = /Users/kingshuk
User Directory = /Users/kingshuk/Library/Application Support/VisualVM/8u131
Cache Directory = /Users/kingshuk/Library/Caches/VisualVM/8u131
Installation = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/visualvm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/profiler
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform
Boot & Ext. Classpath = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/resources.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jce.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/classes:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/nashorn.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/cldrdata.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jaccess.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:/System/Library/Java/Extensions/MRJToolkit.jar
Application Classpath = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/boot.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/org-openide-modules.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/org-openide-util-lookup.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/org-openide-util.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/boot_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/boot_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-modules_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-modules_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-util-lookup_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-util-lookup_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-util_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/locale/org-openide-util_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/dt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/tools.jar
Startup Classpath = /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/org-openide-filesystems.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/core.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/locale/core_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/locale/org-openide-filesystems_ja.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/locale/org-openide-filesystems_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/core/locale/core_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/visualvm/core/com-sun-tools-visualvm-modules-startup.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/visualvm/core/locale/com-sun-tools-visualvm-modules-startup_zh_CN.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/visualvm/core/locale/core_visualvm.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/visualvm/core/locale/com-sun-tools-visu
alvm-modules-startup_ja.jar
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java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:497)
at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:537)
at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:420)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Splash.setRunning(Splash.java:119)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.Main.start(Main.java:257)
at org.netbeans.core.startup.TopThreadGroup.run(TopThreadGroup.java:84)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Kingshuks-MacBook-Pro:~ kingshuk$
I was also able to notice that the visualvm script calls the nbexec file. And when I tried to run that independently, I got the below error on the console.
Last login: Wed Dec 20 17:56:02 on ttys000
Kingshuks-MacBook-Pro:~ kingshuk$ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/visualvm/platform/lib/nbexec ; exit;
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/cache/lastModified/all-checksum.txt (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:162)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.compareAndUpdateFile(Stamps.java:444)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.stamp(Stamps.java:331)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.moduleJARs(Stamps.java:282)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.file(Stamps.java:168)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.asByteBuffer(Stamps.java:173)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.asStream(Stamps.java:129)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.checkPopulateCache(Stamps.java:540)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.file(Stamps.java:160)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.asByteBuffer(Stamps.java:173)
at org.netbeans.Stamps.asByteBuffer(Stamps.java:153)
at org.netbeans.Archive.<init>(Archive.java:81)
at org.netbeans.JarClassLoader.initializeCache(JarClassLoader.java:68)
at org.netbeans.MainImpl$BootClassLoader.run(MainImpl.java:298)
at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:559)
at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:345)
at org.netbeans.MainImpl.execute(MainImpl.java:154)
at org.netbeans.MainImpl.main(MainImpl.java:46)
at org.netbeans.Main.main(Main.java:44)
Thanks..!!