100838 - Mozilla hangs after failing to start java_vm

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84093

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Michael Marxmeier]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010919
BuildID:    2001091908

After opening the URL the messages below are printed to the shell 
and Mozilla hangs. Java (from NS 6.1) did work with build 2001-09-17-08.
Even if Java was busted i don't think Mozilla should hang.

Document http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7238508.html?tag=tp_pr loaded
successfully
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
<
System error?:: No such file or directory


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL

Comment 1

[edburns]

Reassign to Joe as I'm leaving the role of OJI module owner.

Comment 2

[edburns]

Ressign to Joe Chou, as I am no longer working officially on OJI.

Comment 3

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

I can not reproduce this problem.
Reported URL seems to be different now becuase it 
returns page without any applet or object.

We either need new testcase or we need to close this bug until 
new testcase will be found.

Comment 4

[Joe Chou]

Reporter, what do you think about Igor's comment? Is the problem still
reproducable? Otherwise, we should close this bug.

Comment 5

[Leston Buell]

Please don't close. This bug seems to me to be alive and kicking in Linux build
2001-10-18-08-trunk. I imagine that the bug is encountered in *any* page with a
Java applet. Try <http://www.javalobby.org>. I'm no longer getting the part that
says,

   INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
   <
   System error?:: No such file or directory

but the browser just hangs. For me this is reproducible always.

Comment 6

[Michael Marxmeier]

Just tested with build 2001-10-15-13 on Linux. Java 
seems working correctly. I don't get the error message 
and the browser does not hang. 
I can no longer reproduce the problem.

Leston Buell: I tried www.javalobby.org as well and
it stalls the browser for some time but then finally
continues for me.

Comment 7

[Leston Buell]

Well, going to JavaLobby.org nothing ever loads. I tried to go to the link and
waited several minutes, but Mozilla hung. I think i have a Pentium 500 MHz. How
long is it taking you to load?

However, the behavior has indeed changed, since now i don't get the system error
message at the console as before (and as originally reported). Does this mean
that i should file a new bug for my hang?

Comment 8

[Patty Mac]

Leston, I just verified on Linux redhat 6.2 with jre 1.3.1 (commercial branch:
2001-10-17-16-0.94) and comercial trunk (2001-10-18-08-trunk), it loads fine.
workforme on linux redhat 6.2 both commercial branch and commecial trunk builds.

Comment 9

[Michael Marxmeier]

Leston: It takes about 10 seconds to load the
page at javalobby.org. This is on a Celeron 500
or whatever box. 
Did you try java.sun.com? It also has some applets 
on the page. Worked for me as well.

Comment 10

[Marcin Benke]

This might be related to (or even duplicate of) bug 81788 In any case, the
solution suggested there, i.e. setting environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to
2.2.5 remedied the problem for me on two RH 7.1 boxes

Comment 11

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

There is a known compatibility problem between recent version of mozilla, Sun
JRE 1.3 plugin the 2.4 kernel. For details, see:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84093 

Therefore either you should use 
  export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
or newer version of plugin (i suggest 1.4beta3)

mike: could you please close this bug as dupe of 84093?

Comment 12

[Joe Chou]

Re-assign to mtchan.

Comment 13

[Michael Marxmeier]

Marking as dup of bug 84093 as suggested.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84093 ***

Comment 14

[Patty Mac]

Chris Petersen is a new QA contact for oji component. His email is:
[e-mail]

Comment 15

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixing small error for [e-mail] (filter with : SPAMMAILSUCKS)