Java (icedtea-weband openJDK6) crashes Firefox-10

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Tim Zingelman <tez at netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Tim Zingelman <tez at netbsd.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Florian Smeets wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02.02.2012 05:54, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the upgrade to firefox 10, it crashes when try to access the
>>>>> puzzles at http://www/jigsawplanet.com. The puzzles are java and
>>>>> worked fine under Firefox 9. The only other thing I normally run that
>>>>> is in Java is the ICSI netalyzr, and it runs fine. Anyone else had a
>>>>> problem like this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> this seems to be a known problem with the icedtea-web plugin and firefox
>>>>>
>>>>> = 10 :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Assertion failure: rt->onOwnerThread(), at
>>>> /tmp/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla-release/js/src/jsapi.cpp:6316
>>>> Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
>>>>
>>>> which is described here
>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704249
>>>>
>>>> More info:
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2011/11/22/js-newsletter-112-1122/
>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650411
>>>>
>>>> I did not find a fix or workaround.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is now a patch posted here:
>>>
>>>  http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=820
>>
>> Unfortunately, the patch did not fix the problem. the applet did run
>> longer than it had been, but it still failed as soon as I started
>> actually using it.
>>
>> Previously, it just crashed immediately. Now it starts up and displays
>> the initial screen, but dies as soon as I attempt to manipulate the
>> page.
>>
>> htp://jigsawplanet.com and select any puzzle.
>
> Two more (alternative) patches are now posted to that bug, apparently
> also not quite complete, but something to try perhaps.
>
>  - Tim

Thanks so much! I'll give them a shot when I get a some time, but it
will probably be MUCH later as I'm swamped ATM. (I thought that went
away when I retired. I was so naive!)

-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com