59968 - News article causes Mozilla to freeze

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect, P3)

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

Mozilla will freeze trying to load the above news article.  Happens every time.
 NN4 can display the article fine.

Tested with Mozilla 111304 trunk build on NT4.

Here are the article's headers, just in case:

Path: secnews.netscape.com!not-for-mail
From: "Ranah Livnat" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.layout, netscape.public.mozilla.general
Subject: Javascript popup and Java applets don't work.
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:47:55 +0200
Organization: Versaware Technologies Ltd.
Lines: 699
Message-ID: <8uouv2$[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.90.217.151
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Xref: secnews.netscape.com netscape.public.mozilla.layout:9364
netscape.public.mozilla.general:21907

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I see this on Win2k build 2000110604 and 2000111304
This URL freeze Mozilla at once

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This also freezes me on Windows NT build 2000112204 Commercial.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I'd like to have this tested on other platforms, adding verifyme keyword.  We
need Mac and Linux, please.  CC:ing BHart for Mac support.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Adding keyword for real this time ;-(

Comment 5

[Bradley Hart]

When I go to the above URL in the browser, I do not crash. Instead, I get a
dialog box pup up that reads:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
0 >=0

This dialog appears twice consecutivly. After you hit OK twice, however, the
page displays, I don't know if it is normally.

So, unable to reproduce crash on Mac OS 8.6 build 2000112020

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

reassigning to sspitzer

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm not seeing the freeze or the alerts on my winnt build.

I see that there is an applet in that message.  I don't have the java plugin
installed.

to those who can reproduce this:  do you have the java plugin installed?

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm not seeing this anymore either, build ID 2000112804, and I don't have Java
installed, either.  Windows NT, commercial build from the trunk.  

Comment 9

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Wow, I installed the latest build (with Java this time), 2000112908, Windows NT,
and this freezes Mozilla again.  I'll send this along to the Java team..  

Comment 10

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Re-assigning bug to Java owner.

Comment 11

[Stephen Moehle]

I have Java installed, and Mozilla is definitely freezing.  Mozilla 112804 on NT4.

Comment 12

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to oji

Comment 13

[geetha.vaidyanaathan]

changing QA contact

Comment 14

[edburns]

Can someone please tell me how I can reproduce this bug from inside a site
that only has HTTP PROXY as a way to access the outside world?

Comment 15

[edburns]

Marking invalid due to no response from reporter.  Please reopen if you can 
give me a testcase that works inside an HTTP PROXY firewall scenario.

Comment 16

[Stephen Moehle]

Whoah!  Wait a minute.  It is not my problem if you cannot access
news.mozilla.org.  I have no idea how you can reproduce this without access to
the news server, but that is no reason for you to abandon this bug.  It is a
real bug verified by multiple people, and the onus is on you to fix it.

Comment 17

[edburns]

Ok.

Comment 18

[edburns]

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Hi Folks,

Bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59968

I can't test this bug since I can't see news.mozilla.org from my
organinization due to draconian firewall policies.

Can someone with a machine that meets the following conditions please
test that this bug occurrs and post the results to the bug:

* OS: Windows NT

* Mozilla level: RTM Branch, 0.7 Branch, or trunk (in decreasing order of
  desirability)

* Java: JDK1.3.0_01, installed and working (can view applets, java.sun.com)

Thanks,

Ed

Comment 19

[Stephen Moehle]

I think I managed to send [e-mail] an email that will freeze Mozilla in
the same manner the news article does.

Comment 20

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Pasting that URL into Mozilla 2001-01-26's URL bar and pressing Enter produces a 
display of the news message, and does not cause Mozilla to crash. Win95.

Gerv

Comment 21

[Stephen Moehle]

On Linux with Java enabled, if I click on the URL link or paste in into the
Location bar, Mozilla immediately crashes.  Changing OS to All.

Gervase Markham, are you sure you have Java installed and that it is enabled?

Tested with Mozilla 2001012706 on Linux.

Comment 22

[rpallath]

Updated QA contact and added avm to CC list

Comment 23

[edburns]

Stephen, can you please mail me the source code to Marquee.class?  I'm running 
into the ClassFormatError bug, which means the Marquee.class was not compiled 
with a Java2 series compiler.

Opening http://javaweb.eng.sun.com/~edburns/59968/Marquee.class

Connecting http://javaweb.eng.sun.com/~edburns/59968/Marquee.class with 
proxy=webcache-cup.eng.sun.com:8080

java.lang.ClassFormatError: Marquee (Illegal constant pool type)

	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)

	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)

	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)

	at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)

	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)

	at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)

	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)

	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Please see bug 62025 for more info.

Thanks,

Ed

Comment 24

[edburns]

Ressign to Joe Chou, as I am no longer working officially on OJI.

Comment 25

[R.K.Aa.]

Testing with mozilla 2001102521 linux and jre1.3.1-b24 installed:

Loads fine, although content may be missing?:

I got a moz dialoge box during load telling me i needed the plugin download
plugin. No crash, no freeze.

Which plugin i don't have is beyond me. The content in the page is a message,
title "Key Terms" above a red'ish horizontal line, then a two column list of
glossary links, and copyright by Prentice-Hall at the bottom.

Comment 26

[Joe Chou]

Re-assign to mtchan.

Comment 27

[Denis Antrushin]

I got same results as in comment #25 with Feb 15 trunk on solaris 2.8
and java plugin 1.3.1. When I tried to display index.html I extracted
from original message, I got 'NoClassDefFoundError: MarqueeFile', but no hang
popupIndex.html displays w/o hang as well

Comment 28

[Denis Antrushin]

removing myself from cc:

Comment 29

[Bartosz Wucke]

Confirming on Linux RC2 + JRE.3.1_01.
Removing "verifyme" since confirmed on all platforms.

Comment 30

[Christopher Curzio]

I seem to have found a similar problem with an article that totally locks up
Mozilla. Unfortunately, I don't know if it's Java-related or not. 

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/09/09/mint/index.html

I've been trying for the past 5 minutes to view that URL in Mozilla, and it just
locks up.

Comment 31

[dsirnapalli]

-- Verified on latest trunk build on Win2K with JRE1.4.2_Beta. Going to the
above url throws up some exceptions(java.net.MalformedURL) but does not hang me.
Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 32

[dsirnapalli]

-- Reporter, if you still see the problem please reopen the bug. Marking VERIFIED.