Java (icedtea-weband openJDK6) crashes Firefox-10

[Tim Zingelman]

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