Java (icedtea-weband openJDK6) crashes Firefox-10

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!)

Just installed the newly committed icedtea-web-1.2_1 and firefox-10.
Everything seems to be work fine again. Thanks!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com