144467 - browser crashed with a seg. fault when loading Sun Java 1.4 plugin (previously worked)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Jason Keltz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512
BuildID:    2002051211

In Mozilla-0.99, I was able to add a symlink to
j2sdk1.4.0/jre/plugin/sparc/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji140.so
and Java worked perfectly.
With Mozilla-1.0rc2, mozilla will just seg fault and core dump when it loads.
I tried starting with a completely fresh config:
rm -rf .mozilla
mozilla

The problem occurs before Mozilla would even build most of what is in .mozilla.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.symlink java file into the plugins directory
2.start mozilla
3.see seg fault
4. remove java file from plugins directory
5. start mozilla
6. no seg fault

Actual Results:  see above.

Expected Results:  I would have expected the plugin to continue to work :)

Comment 1

[Jason Keltz]

Attachment: truss output (trace system calls) for mozilla startup showing the seg fault

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

oji

Comment 3

[Joe Chou]

Try to link to .../jre/plugin/sparc/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji140.so, instead of
.../ns610/..., and it should work.
ns600 is gcc compiled, whereas ns610 is forte. If the brower is gcc compiled,
then ns600 should be used. Moz099 is an exception. Somehow, maybe due to some
changes in the branch, it only works with ns610, the forte compiled version.

Comment 4

[Jason Keltz]

Thanks Joe.  That did work.
Unfortunately, as Sun releases further JDK versions, I hope there will always be
a gcc compiled plugin that will work with Mozilla.
I guess this case can be closed.

Comment 5

[Joe Chou]

Mark WFM.