512834 - Camino 1.6.X / SeaMonkey 1.1.x crashes loading any Java applet on OS X 10.6 [@registerNatives]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Plugins Graveyard :: Java (Java Embedding Plugin), defect)

Description

[George]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090815 Camino/1.6.9 (like Firefox/2.0.0.23)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090815 Camino/1.6.9 (like Firefox/2.0.0.23)

I have a local server (Linux based security camera thingie) that cannot be accessed outside of my local network.  When I try to view a video from a camera, Camino crashes hard.  The server has two options for viewing video, ActiveX (which won't work) and Java.  Java kills it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. you won't be able to reproduce without access to this local server
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
hard crash

Expected Results:  
I'd see the video from the camera

Console log
8/26/09 4:35:53 PM	Camino[5141]	Warning once: This application, or a library it uses, is using NSQuickDrawView, which has been deprecated. Apps should cease use of QuickDraw and move to Quartz.
8/26/09 4:36:03 PM	Camino[5141]	*** WARNING: Method runModalForWindow:relativeToWindow: in class NSApplication is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/26/09 4:36:03 PM	Camino[5141]	*** WARNING: Method beginModalSessionForWindow:relativeToWindow: in class NSApplication is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/26/09 4:36:25 PM	[0x0-0x2d42d4].org.mozilla.camino[5141]	JavaVM: requested Java version (1.5) not available. Using Java at "/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home" instead.
8/26/09 4:36:26 PM	Camino[5141]	An uncaught exception was raised
8/26/09 4:36:26 PM	Camino[5141]	java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/plugin/javascript/webkit/JSObject
	at jep.AppletHandlerFactory.callRegisterNatives(Native Method)
	at jep.AppletHandlerFactory.initProperties(AppletHandlerFactory.java:254)
8/26/09 4:36:26 PM	Camino[5141]	*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'JavaNativeException', reason: 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/plugin/javascript/webkit/JSObject'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
	0   CoreFoundation                      0x97af958a __raiseError + 410
	1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x942e3f49 objc_exception_throw + 56
	2   CoreFoundation                      0x97b43af1 -[NSException raise] + 17
	3   JavaPluginCocoa                     0x20a9f93c registerNatives + 129
	4   JavaEmbeddingPlugin                 0x0e6dea65 Java_callRegisterNatives + 402
	5   ???                                 0x1400b839 0x0 + 335591481
)
8/26/09 4:36:29 PM	com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[178]	([0x0-0x2d42d4].org.mozilla.camino[5141]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap
8/26/09 4:36:30 PM	ReportCrash[5152]	Saved crash report for Camino[5141] version 1.6.9 (1609.08.15) to /Users/george/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Camino_2009-08-26-163630_dadsiMac.crash


Note, I will attempt to attach the crash log generated

MacOS 10.6 Build 10A342
Camino 1.6.9

Comment 1

[George]

Attachment: crash log for the reported event

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Steven, what's the 10.6-compat status of the JEP on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH (looks like it's 0.9.6.4)?  (I'm not sure that's the issue here per se, but I'd like to know that information.)

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Er, and George, do other Java applets crash, or just that one?  E.g. http://browserspy.dk/java.php or http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #2)
> what's the 10.6-compat status of the JEP on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH

Not good; see bug 494246

Comment 5

[George]

Response to Comment #3

Both links kill Camino immediately.

Comment 6

[George]

it appears that Camino and Java 1.6 are not playing together well....

Comment 7

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

All versions of the JEP prior to 0.9.7 are incompatible with
SnowLeopard (they crash whenever you load any Java applet).

Try installing the latest JEP (0.9.7.2) from
http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/.  For best results, you should
probably do the following:

Install the new JEP to your /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder, then
remove older copy(ies) of the JEP from the Camino distro(s) you wish
to test.  For more information see the JEP Readme
(http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/Readme.html).

JEP 0.9.7.2 should perhaps be bundled with 1.8-branch Camino and
Seamonkey, but there's one problem -- since 0.9.7, the JEP has only
supported OS X 10.4 and above, but Camino 1.6.X	and Seamonkey 1.1.X
support OS X 10.2 and above.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I assume it's non-trivial to restore compatibility with 10.2 and 10.3 to the current JEPs ;)

Very shortly those Camino and SeaMonkey releases will exist solely for people on 10.3 (and also 10.2 in SeaMonkey's case), so I don't think we want to land a JEP that cripples Java for them, even though the greater inconvenience is to the likely-larger number of "early" adopters of 10.6.  Users with the newer OS should be moving to a newer app with a working-JEP-on-10.6 in the near future, and if the newer JEP is compatible with Gecko 1.8.1 under 10.6, the work-around in comment 7 should be bearable in the short term.

Comment 9

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> I assume it's non-trivial to restore compatibility with 10.2 and
> 10.3 to the current JEPs ;)

Correct.

> if the newer JEP is compatible with Gecko 1.8.1 under 10.6

I did a fair amount of testing with 1.8-branch Camino/Seamonkey and
JEP 0.9.7.X on 10.6, and didn't see any major problems.

Comment 11

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Adding the crash signatures from Breakpad to the summary so I can better track this in 2.0b3's crash-stats reports, too.

(To be clear: everything newer than 2.0b3 has JEP 0.9.7.2 and does not suffer from this crash, so this bug can remain about the 1_8 branch.)

Comment 12

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

We shouldn't use___TERMINATING_DUE_TO_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION___ to
identify these crashes.  Doing so is just as pointless as using
nsObjCExceptionLogAbort() used to be (and for the same reason).

See bug 514269 comment #8.

Comment 14

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Changing summary to also include seamonkey.

Comment 18

[George]

Camino 1.6.10 appears to have simply disabled Java applets

Camino 2 beta declares a Java problem and doesn't run the applet.  Unfortunately, this particular applet is available only on my local domain, but there is still a Java problem.

Comment 19

[George]

Camino 2 release version seems to have fixed this issue

Comment 20

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Both Camino and SeaMonkey have EOLed their 1.8.1 branch releases, so I think we can WONTFIX this now.