279146 - Crash loading page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

Fully reproducible on linux.
Windoze XP pro install of same mozilla release works fine.

Page contains javascript applet and an animation.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open this URL with given SW and platform

Actual Results:  
crash browswer


default themes yada yada

Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_04-b05

Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81

Comment 1

[Chris Blore]

This appears to be because of the use of Java where there is currently a known
problem with the Mozilla core, I believe.

I don't get a crash as such under Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050120 Firefox/1.0+ but the page loads exceptionally slowly.

Comment 2

[Fabio Correa]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618

This page seems to need Java VM. I don't have it installed, because I realized a
bug in it. As expected, my Mozilla did not crash.

Comment 3

[Kurt Weinschenker]

Apparently Linux-only bug.  Camino nightly build 2005012008 running under Mac OS
10.3.7 does not crash.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Does your Java work on other pages?

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java
- Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins directory.
- plugin depends on compiler used, gcc 2.9.4 or gcc 3.x

Links to java for Linux from SUN
installation instructions:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/install-linux.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install.html

system requirements:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/system-configurations.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/system-configurations.html

download:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Sun offers multiple packages for free.
If you don´t want to write your own programs, but just have a java enabled
browser, JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is the thing you are looking for.
You can also get SDK (SoftwareDevelopmentKit) or a package including Netbeans,
an IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Also see http://blackdown.org/ for Java for Linux.

Comment 5

[Bob Davis]

From submitter: problem caused by (mis)re-install of java RTE by copying rather
than sym linking SRE.  Fixing this resolves the problem.

So "User Error" except some way to detect this easy-to-make mistake would be
advisable to avoid future reports of the same sort.  E.g. in "help about
plugins", used to verify plugin installs, a check could be added -- say.

Sorry and thanks to all.
-bob (original reporter)

PS: not sure what status change is appropriate here, whether to resolve or
change the state of this report in some other way.  So I will do nothing for now.

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

invalid then, afaik the symlink issue is also stated in the release notes