202310 - Trying to open the Java console window crashes Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Doug Brann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS AlphaServer_4100_5/533_4MB; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

Java Plugin info:

Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.0-1

    File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
    Java(TM) Plug-in1.4.0_03


Error messages:

GENERIC_POLL: unknown condition, errno=4 vaxc$errno=2096
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser
System error?:: interrupted system call


Our machine is running DEC TCPIP Services if that matters.

VMS version: OpenVMS V7.2-2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools..Web Development..Java Console
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla crashes with teh message in the details section.

Expected Results:  
Opened the Java Console

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you copied the plugin or symlinked ?
(copy is wrong)

no plugin written in Java -> Oji

Comment 2

[Doug Brann]

symlinks do not exist on VMS.  I did try copying in a fresh copy of the plugin 
from our SDK 1.4.0-1 distribution; neither worked.

Comment 3

[Colin Blake]

Are you using the full SDK or just the JRE?

Comment 4

[Doug Brann]

In this  case it was the JRE. 

Comment 5

[Colin Blake]

Then I think you're getting bitten by a problem which was just discovered the
other day. Basically the JRE kit is missing one file. See bug 199932 comment 11
for details.

I have just posted a copy of the missing file to bug 199932. Please try it, and
let me know if this fixes the problem.

Comment 6

[Doug Brann]

We were already aware of this problem and had added this file to our JRE 
before reporting this problem.

Comment 7

[Colin Blake]

Are any TRACE files are left behind in your SYS$LOGIN directory?

Comment 8

[Doug Brann]

I currently only have access to email.  I'll look either later tonight or 
first thing in the morning.

Comment 9

[Doug Brann]

Here is the trace and it looks very much like the problem we were seeing 
running Java by itself before adding the missing file.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.addPlatformNameForFontProperties
(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:519)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.initTerminalNames
(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:938)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.initCompositeFonts
(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:778)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.access$100
(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:58)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment$1.run
(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:162)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.<init>
(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:87)
        at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<init>
(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:155)
        at java.lang.Class.native_newInstance0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:251)
        at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment
(GraphicsEnvironment.java:62)
        at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:224)
        at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:268)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:398)
        at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:198)
        at sun.plugin.ConsoleWindow.<init>(ConsoleWindow.java:68)
        at sun.plugin.JavaRunTime.getJavaConsole(JavaRunTime.java:100)
        at sun.plugin.JavaRunTime.showJavaConsole(JavaRunTime.java:184)
        at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(AppletViewer.java:290)
        at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.doit(Plugin.java:152)
        at sun.plugin.navig.motif.Plugin.start(Plugin.java:96)

Comment 10

[Joshua Xia]

OpenVMS->[e-mail]

Comment 11

[Colin Blake]

The java stack trace is identical to the "missing fonts_dir.dat" file problem. I
have to ask the obvious, are you 100% sure that you now have the correct
fonts_dir.dat file, in the correct place, and with the correct file attributes?

Do you have an OpenVMS support contract, because this is a Java problem, and
we're going to need to get the Java folks involved?

Comment 12

[Doug Brann]

Thank you for asking the obvious.  I just discovered that for performance 
reasons for our testing folks we have a duplicate install of our software on 
the machine where Mozilla 1.3 is installed so it was using a different copy of 
the JRE than the one where I had added the missing file.  One the file was 
added on this machine, the console starts and our applet is executing.

Thanks much!

Comment 13

[Colin Blake]

Glad to hear it. Closing report.