217478 - java 1.3.1 plugin gets NullPointerException

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Jim Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

The JAVA 1.3.1_01 plugin on DEC Tru64 gets a 'java.lang.NullPointerException:
string is null' exception (seemingly on many web pages).  This started happening
recently (about the last month).  I do not notice any obvious problems in
mozilla -- just the traceback file showing up in my login directory.
I will see if I can determine particular web pages which cause the problem.

The plugin displays this traceback information:

Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.3.1_01
Using JRE version 1.3.1 Fast VM
...
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.NullPointerException: string is null
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawString(java.lang.String,int,int) (SunGra
phics2D.java:2242) (pc 11)
        at Time.paint                    (Time.java:79)          (pc 42)
        at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint     (RepaintArea.java:298)  (pc 207)
        at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.handleEvent (MComponentPeer.java:353) (p
c 41)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl (Component.java:2663) (pc 504)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl (Container.java:1213) (pc 42)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent (Component.java:2497) (pc 2)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent (EventQueue.java:339) (pc 36)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy (EventDispatchT
hread.java:131) (pc 72)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy (EventDispatchThr
ead.java:98) (pc 12)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents (EventDispatchThread.java:93)
 (pc 3)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run (EventDispatchThread.java:85) (pc 9)
                      PLUGIN ERROR 
                      ************ 
Java process: unexpected request ffffffff


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.not sure

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yes but how should this be a "Java implementent plugins" error ?
description "For bugs against the support for Plugins that are written in Java.
This is not OJI, nor the Java Plugin (formerly known as Activator).."

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try with Java 1.4.1 ?
http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/download/unix/1.4.1/index.html

Comment 3

[Jim Brown]

I installed JAVA 1.4.1-2 and have not seen any of these errors (so far).
I will continue to monitor it.
Unfortunately, Tru64 5.1B comes with JAVA 1.3.1.

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

Please open other bug reports if you have further issues or reopen this one if
you still have the issue with 1.4.1.