107295 - Mozilla crashes on startup with Blackdown Java

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Hogarth]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011028
BuildID:    2001102210 through to 2001102806

After having Java working sweetly for me till the late september/early october
builds I tried a recent one and for the past week or so I've been getting the
following error:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking
error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol:
XtShellStrings

Now, nuking my ~/.mozilla dir only works for the first run of mozilla, then the
above problem reappears. Nuking the ~/.mozilla/appreg file has the same effect.
First run fine; subsequent runs, ****.

Mozilla was not installed as root. It was installed as the non-root user trying
to run it.

I've tried a few in the BuildID range and the 2210 one is the first one I tried.

Also, javaplugin.so was installed manually into /usr/local/mozilla/plugins by
the same non-root user and is symlinked to the real file.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install mozilla afresh
2.Install symlink to javaplugin.so
3.Start mozilla, BOOM.

or

3. rm -fvr ~/.mozilla
4. Start mozilla
5. Quit mozilla
6. Start mozilla, BOOM.

Actual Results:  /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla:/usr/local/mozilla/plugins
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla:/usr/local/mozilla/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
          LIBPATH=/usr/local/mozilla
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking
error=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol:
XtShellStrings

System error?:: Success


Expected Results:  A running mozilla with java. :)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OJI

Comment 2

[Hogarth]

Well with a multimegabit link to my local mozilla mirror I tried to track where
precisely this sucker decided to break. And after MUCH pain I found it. 8)

2001-10-18-05-trunk works fine. 

2001-10-18-08-trunk breaks on startup as noted below.

The steps involved:

1. download
2. untar
3. run the mozilla installer (this is a sea tarball)
4. quit the mozilla it starts
5. install the symlinks
6. run mozilla
7. quit mozilla
8. run mozilla again

at this point 05 will keep on going while 08 will crash and burn with the error
I gave previously.

I hope this helps in locating and fixing this bug. :)

Comment 3

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

I can not reproduce this on Redhat 6.2
Tried latest trunk and 2001-10-18-08-trunk binary.

Could you try 
  ./run-mozilla.sh /usr/bin/ldd -r plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
?

Also, does  
  export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so
change mozilla behavior?

Comment 4

[manly+bugzilla]

I posted a query on Blackdown java-linux mailing list, and got an answer from
Blackdown (lead?) developer Juergen Kreileder.

You're attempting to use the Java Plugin in JDK 1.3.0, which was originally
written for Mozilla M18. To verify this, check your output for java -version

You need to use Blackdown JDK 1.3.1 instead. Note you don't need to tweak any
environment settings for this JVM (unlike for the Sun 1.3.x JVMs).
I suppose this bug should be resolved INVALID or WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[Hogarth]

Ok. My local mirror of blackdown isn't as uptodate as it should be so I found
another, grabbed the latest version (1.3.1) and ran the latest mozzy.

The bug did not re-appear so it appears there's nought wrong with mozilla as far
as starting up with java is concerned.

Sorry about that folks and thanks. :)

Comment 6

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

Hogarth: would you please close this bug as Resolved & Wontfix?

Comment 7

[Hogarth]

No worries. Wasn't quite sure of the procedure. :)

Comment 8

[Patty Mac]

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

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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