173254 - Phoenix crashes when trying to use Java plugin

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Alexander Klink]

When trying to view any page with java content, after downloading and installing
the java plugin, phoenix crashes:

[klink@dandelion]:/usr/local/src/phoenix$ ./phoenix
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser
System error?:: Die Ressource ist zur Zeit nicht verfügbar
[klink@dandelion]:/usr/local/src/phoenix$ ./phoenix --version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021007 Phoenix/0.3,
build 2002100708

(the same happens with 0.2 as well)

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

you need to be more specific. What version of the Java plugin? 

Comment 2

[Alexander Klink]

The Java plugin that gets downloaded from the netscape site when I visit
a site which uses Java for the first time. Apparently a Java2 plugin.
Maybe you can tell me how I can find out which version it is...

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->oji

Comment 4

[Patty Mac]

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

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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

Comment 6

[Shawn Lindsay]

wfm 

My java is 1.4.1 from Sun, symlinked as per the instructions in the Mozilla
release notes.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021028 Phoenix/0.4,
build 2002102808

Comment 7

[Shawn Lindsay]

addendum to my wfm:  Java stays in memory after closing a tab.  Killing it will
take down the browser; otherwise there is no crash.  Exiting normally kills the
Java.  Cf. #123191

Comment 8

[Joshua Xia]

reassign to me

Comment 9

[Xiaobin Lu]

Reporter, do you still see the issue. If not, please mark it as WFM.

Comment 10

[Shaya Potter]

I have a similiar issue. I'm using the oji plugin that comes with the j2sdk1.3
deb package.

I've tried it with a nightly of a few days ago, and a cvs build (with xft) of
today, as well as 0.5 build with xft.

this is the error I get.

spotter@zaphod:~/src1/mozilla/dist/bin$ ./phoenix
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
<
System error?:: No such file or directory
Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0.
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable

Mozilla/5.0 (Win; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030102 Phoenix/0.5
<developer build> 

the Win is because of a binary edited libnecko.so (replaced X11 with Win) as
fidelity's site checks for navigator.Appversion.indexof("Win"); so replacing X11
with Win lets me use it.

This is on Debian unstable, but mozilla 1.2 and mozilla-snapshot (cvs build of
Dec 12th) packages work fine w/ java, so I doubt its another iteraction issue.

any other details you need to know?

cross posted with bug 175397

Comment 11

[Kenneth Herron]

Alexander, is this still an issue? Can you reproduce the problem with a current
version of phoenix?

Would it be possible for you to collect a backtrace from phoenix when it crashes
like this?

Spotter: The "exec of java_vm failed" error implies that your java plugin is
installed incorrectly. The entry in the mozilla plugins directory must be a
symbolic link to the actual plugin, not a copy of the plugin or a hard link.

Comment 12

[Shaya Potter]

making it a symlink fixed the fact that it couldn't load, but using java in
general still seems broken.

for instance the charting facility on fidelity's brokerage website

http://activequote.fidelity.com/rtrnews/stocks_main_nn.phtml?in_page=charts.phtml&in_ticker=ibm

the applet loads, but then just hangs there.

On the website of the newspaper of my undergrad alma matter 

http://www.yucommentator.com

they seem to have (for some stupid reason) made the sidebar only operate as a
java applet.  Well, it doesn't work like its supposed to (i.e. click on applet
takes you to new page) and after a bunch of clicking the java_vm and mozilla
processes consumed lots of cpu for a short period of time and eventually died.

Comment 13

[John Schwinghammer]

Still an issue?

Comment 14

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no response-->resolving wfm
the various other comments about java hanging, etc. belong to a seperate bug