57400 - possible Java install error, and definitive java crash.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57046

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[R.K.Aa.]

2000101921

Tried installing Java for the first time, running moz as root.
During installation the progress-meter was mostly absent, a minor detail.
But after installing two browser windows appeared:

One saying: Install results:
Java 2.0 Plug-in for Linux: Error encountered -- -229
and another saying:
Install Results
Jave 2.0 Plug-in for Linux: Successful

I then quit moz and restarted.
The following startup looked like this:

[root@localhost dark]# mozilla &
[1] 26267
[root@localhost dark]# /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh
/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
     LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla:/usr/local/mozilla/components
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
          LIBPATH=/usr/local/mozilla
       ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/mozilla
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
before calling the services
Failed to create Java VM
Setting content window
*** Pulling out the charset
Loading page specified via openDialog
in SetSecurityButton
Document http://www.mozilla.org/ loaded successfully
----

Then went to the site i originally needed Java on
(http://www.multicom.no)
and crashed. Crash is repeatable.

->>>>>>>>>>>>>> Write Clipboard to memory
->>>>>>>>>>>>>> Write Clipboard to memory
->>>>>>>>>>>>>> Write Clipboard to memory
Create instance called in JavaPluginFactory5!!!!!!!!
 Succeeding in creating proxy
Register Env [0] proxyenv=142035912 tid=134578872
initilizing the java plugin instantance

(Here it crashed. I can't run it under gdb these days as it crashes while starting.)

A file was written to homedir during load or crash - don't know if this means
anything.

$ tail plugin130_01.trace
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
l:   dump classloader list
m:   print memory usage
q:   hide console
s:   dump system properties
t:   dump thread list
x:   clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
----------------------------------------------------

The download took around 100 minutes, so this won't be an experiment i repeat
for a while.

Expected behaviour:
-Java to install without errors.
-Java to not crash mozilla.

Comment 1

[John Hayward-Warburton]

Netscape 6 PR 3 Java plugin worked for Linux nightly builds (oh, joy!) up to
around 20001011, after which I get the same behaviour: segfaults when Java
starts up. Nightly build 2000101921 shows same problem.

Comment 2

[olaf]

the crash looks like duplicate of bug 57046.

Comment 3

[Sean Su]

reassigning to Samir for a closer look.  This might already be fixed.

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

The initial report suggests that the user triggered the download twice and one
of them was corrupted (-229 error).  The non-corrupted install appears to have
been successful given the fact that the plugin trace file was generated.

We have since shipped a newer revision of Java from Sun.  Please try that.
Assuming this is a dup of bug 57046 as cited by Olaf.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57046 ***

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

verify