272762 - mozilla dies if javavm is not executabel

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Sven Esbjerg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

If java is installed and recognized by mozilla but has wrong filepermissions for
javavm - ie. 644 mozilla dies when trying to load a java-applet.

The error is:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 13
<
System error?:: Permission denied
Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server localhost:16.0.
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from child process
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install java an plugin
2. chmod 644 javavm
3. run mozilla and load a page with an applet



Expected Results:  
I would expect mozilla to report that java can not be run because of wrong
filepermissions or another error but it's trivial to check for executabel
permission on a unix file system.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Unfortunately, Mozilla isn't executing java_vm.  The Java plugin is.  Then the
plugin calls exit() when it fails to execute the file. Since the plugin is
in-process, this quits the entire app.

Please file this bug on your plugin vendor (probably Sun, but it may be
Blackdown, depending on the Java plugin you're using).