500772 - INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; et; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: 20090626012914

Occurs on a number of sites and causes Fennec to exit with exit value of 255. www.mozilla.org is affected but planet.mozilla.org is not. Doesn't occur if Javascript is turned off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Activate address bar
2. Type www.mozilla.org
3. Type Enter
Actual Results:  
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager
System error?:: No such file or directory
appears in console.

Comment 1

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

Related to plugin, when I go to www.mozilla.org with my linux box I have a call to LoadPlugin(LoadPlugin() /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so returned b1402d80)

I'm not sure it is specific to Fennec. Google suggests there is generally a link with Java for this error.
Can also check : http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting+plugins

Comment 2

[Merike Sell (:merike)]

Some further test results loading www.mozilla.org with fresh profiles each time:
BuildID=20090625122750 loads nicely, no errors in error console, exits with 0
BuildID=20090626012914 crashes as described previously
BuildID=20090627013451 crashes the same way

But, if I first open www.mozilla.org in 25th build and then use the same profile in either 26th or 27th build to open the same page, it won't crash.

If I simply let 25th build create the profile but not open www.mozilla.org then both 26th and 27th builds crash using this profile opening www.mozilla.org.

Hope this helps.

Comment 3

[timeless]

yes, that code comes from sun's java plugin. please complain to them.

Comment 4

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

I can confirm, I get this crash upon start of Firefox (Linux Fedora 11) on a build from today (July 1st, 2009): 

$ ./firefox
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not get the plugin manager

The crash is happening when Firefox is trying to load the java plugin symlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so 

So the question is: Is Firefox or Java to blaim? It is true this did not happen a week ago or so. 

I use the following version of java: jre1.6.0_14

Comment 5

[timeless]

the java plugin killed you. it's welcome to defend its murder of your browser for whatever reason, but it was still directly responsible for its murder.

Comment 6

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

Indeed the jre1.6.0_14 kills my browser, but so does also libgcjwebplugin.so -> /usr/lib/gcj-4.4.0/libgcjwebplugin.so 

This is not a Sun java, but an alternative distributed by Fedora.

The release version of Firefox 3.5 works fine (with either plugin installed), however.

Anyhow, I have reported this to the Sun Java crew, possibly they will contact you.

Please also see bug 337438, which I believe is the same

Comment 7

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom)]

It also happens with SUN's Java with the latest nightly (aka FF 3.6pre):

java version "1.6.0_14"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

Any chance to ping them too?

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass-closing bugs in the "OJI" component: OJI plugin integration was replaced with npruntime long ago, and these bugs appear to be irrelevant now. If there is in fact a real bug that remains, please file it new in the "Core" product, component "Plug-ins".