126025 - Upon starting Java applet Mozilla crashes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java-Implemented Plugins, defect)

Description

[Cip]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020128
BuildID:    2002012808

RH 7.2 ; glibc-2.2.4-13 ; 2.4.17 (NOT -ac) ; PIII 500 512M RAM

After downloading a new Mozilla I've made a copy of the Netscape's libjavaplugin
to Mozilla's plugin dir. Mozilla crashed upon visiting the above URL. I've
downloaded jdk-1.3.1.rpm and installed; useless same crash. Finaly I deleted
libjavaplugin from plugin dir and went to sun.java.com and proceeded to install
via web. Same results (right now there is a java2 dir in the Mozila plugin
directory.) The browser crashes the moment it activates the java applet even in
java.sun.com page

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download browser
2.Install JAva 
 a. ln -s to Netscape plugin dir
 b. OR from jdk-1.3.1.rpm
 c. OR from web page at java.sun.com
3.Start browser
4.Go to one of the URL
5.Wait for applet to start

Actual Results:  Mozilla crash

Expected Results:  The running Java applet

The above pages worked flawless with 0.9.7 with the same JDK-1.3.1. The above
URLs works well in Netscape 6.2 on the same machine.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

The plugin shouldn't be copied, it should be linked to.

See comment:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125252#c6

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

>After downloading a new Mozilla I've made a copy of the Netscape's
>libjavaplugin to Mozilla's plugin dir.

It is possible that ~/.mozilla/appreg was broken by this move:

Make sure you have removed the .so file from plugin dir.
Then create the correct symlink from the original location of libjavaplugin.so
to the mozilla/plugin dir

Then start Mozilla (Mozilla will likely spawn the profile manager on next
startup after a appreg deletion, believing there are no profiles)
-Now click the button marked "Manage Profiles"
-In the next window, click "Create Profile..."
-In the popup, click "Next" button
-and under "Enter New Profile Name" add the exact name of your OLD profile
directory (found right under ~/.mozilla).
-Then click the "Finish" button and then button labeled "Start Mozilla"

Mozilla now starts with your old profile and creates a fresh appreg.
Then try the URL again.

Comment 3

[Vadim Berezniker]

Marking WORKSFORME based on lack of reporter's reply.

Please reopen if you can still experience this crash after following rkaa's advice.