170541 - Browser crashes when trying to load BBC homepage

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Vartan Stepanian]

I just installed version 1.0.1 because I thought it might
fix the bug, but it didn't.

I try to load http://news.bbc.co.uk and the browser dies.

I did a cleaned the cache but the problem persists.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please use a talkback build and report the incident id.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

what version of JRE plugin do you have?  do you crash on other pages with java
(java.sun.com)?  do you have the plugin correctly installed (symlinked, not copied)?

Comment 3

[Vartan Stepanian]

I'm sorry, it does seem to be a Java related problem. Although I still don't
know how to fix it, I guess it doesn't qualify as a bug?

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

from the Mozilla release notes (surprisingly, I could not find this info in the
almost non-exitent java documentation, or on java.sun.com):
> Make a symlink to /usr/java/j*/jre/plugins/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so in 
> your mozilla plugins/ directory. Do not copy the file, but instead make a 
> symlink to it.

==> OJI

Comment 5

[Vartan Stepanian]

# ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins
total 936
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       931920 Sep 26 02:46 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           66 Sep 27 02:27 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        19940 Sep 10 17:00 libnullplugin.so

Thats what is done, I think.

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

yes, that's correct

Comment 7

[Vartan Stepanian]

So what may be the problem then?

Also, since I have the talkback version, I wonder why it doesn't 
give me a diagnostic screen after the crash, to allow me to 
send the report in.

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

OJI will sometimes just "exit" when it detects a problem.  the talkback part
sees this as a clean exit rather than a crash.

you can get some info by running Mozilla from a terminal.  It will usually print
something to the console before crashing.

Comment 9

[Vartan Stepanian]

Ok, I started mozilla from command line, upon exit
it didn't print anything, however, it returned error
code of 255



bash-2.05a$ mozilla
bash-2.05a$ echo $?
255

Comment 10

[Vartan Stepanian]

I used to be able to visit pages with Java.

I think the problem may have started when I installed the newest JRE from Sun.

Comment 11

[Patty Mac]

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

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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

Comment 13

[Vartan Stepanian]

Attachment: Error log generated by Java

I just discovered that this file is dumped to my homedir whenever the crash
occurs.

Comment 14

[Joshua Xia]

I will investigate it

Comment 15

[Kenneth Herron]

I'm using java 1.4.1_01 with solaris nightly 2002121122, and I cannot reproduce
the crash.

Judging from the exception log, this is a known bug in java. See

<http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4482430.html>

The bug is still open at this time, but they note that more than one bug is
involved and it appears some of them have been fixed by now. You might try
upgrading your copy of java.

Resolving invalid since it's apparently a java bug.