https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c1 Wolfgang Rosenauer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |hacker@scarlet-jade.com --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2010-12-04 19:50:14 UTC --- Did you submit the crash report to Mozilla? If so please let us know the crash id from about:crashes. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c3 --- Comment #3 from Graham Davis 2010-12-05 11:16:00 UTC --- I've changed from b17 to b18 and all is OK. I've also looked at what versions I have installed on the other versions of openSUSE on this machine and have found 11.4 M4 only has b18 installed so that explains why that is OK, but 11.2 has b20 installed and yet that is also OK.

From this, it seems that the problem is specific to the b20 version of Java 1.6.0 on 11.3. This is the x64 version that is failing but I haven't tried the 32-bit one. In the past, there have been troubles with the 64-bit implementation of Java so it might just be isolated to 64-bit again.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c5 Michal Vyskocil changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |hacker@scarlet-jade.com --- Comment #5 from Michal Vyskocil 2010-12-09 14:05:07 UTC --- And which site did you use? The http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/data/download.html from comment#0 don't have any Java plugin and simple Java plugin test [1] [1] http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml works well for me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c7 Graham Davis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|hacker@scarlet-jade.com | --- Comment #7 from Graham Davis 2010-12-10 14:13:47 UTC --- I'm sorry to say I didn't get much useful from my trials (and tribulations!). I did install a new 11.3, updating to the b20 version of IcedTea, and tried to get failures on a suspect site or two. Didn't have any success. However, logging on to my operational userid crashed Firefox. Although the first crash could have been associated with any of a multitude of pages, subsequent crashes occurred when only the "how embarrassing" recovery page was showing. After a few seconds and no intervention on my part, Firefox would crash. The crash report is http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-a23bf8ed-c302-442d-ad44-965ae.... IcedTea appears but the failing recovery page only uses Javascript. Could that be enough? I dropped back to b18, which I'd previously found worked, and the crashes kept going. I dropped back to b17 and they stopped. In the previous trial I'd gone straight to b17, which stopped the problem, and then to b18, which did not resurrect it. Suggests that b17 can stop the problem whereas b18 can't do so but doesn't cause it. I went back to my old 11.3 and updated to b20 but couldn't get it to fail. Returning to the new version, I did an update and found a new version of b20. I installed this and can no longer - so far - get Firefox to fail. It seems that this new b20 may include a fix for the problem. I'm a little reluctant to sign this off as "resolved" this quickly but will keep my fingers crossed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c9 --- Comment #9 from Graham Davis 2010-12-17 10:37:40 UTC --- After more tests, I can confirm the problem is allied to running 11.4 and then switching back to 11.3. I'm using the same /home partition and the problem only occurs for user sessions where Firefox has been used on 11.4 and then 11.3. Looks like something odd with local settings which then gets fixed by reverting to the older version (b17) of IcedTea. This is looking more trivial now. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c11 Graham Davis changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|hacker@scarlet-jade.com | --- Comment #11 from Graham Davis 2011-01-20 15:35:41 UTC --- Michal, I'm sorry for not replying sooner but I was dealing with other things - including my Income Tax return. :-( What I meant be "trivial" is that the problem would only affect those few people like myself who are brave (stupid?) enough to run both 11.4 beta and 11.3 on the same machine and on the same /home partition. ;-) I switched to 11.3 and installed the debug packages and Firefox started up without any glitches. Had the usual suspects open in numerous tabs and windows but couldn't get a crash. It reminded me of debugging Fortran programs decades ago when putting in "write" statements would clear the fault - until you took them out again - though at least that behavior would indicate the cause of the trouble. Looks like the problem may now have gone from "trivial" to "non-existent". There have been a few updates to Firefox and Java since I started this so perhaps one of them has fixed the problem - perhaps deliberately, perhaps accidentally. I'll be running 11.4 for most, if not all of the time now, so I'm happy to let the status of this 11.3 problem to be switched to "resolved". Thanks for your help, Graham -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657603#c13 --- Comment #13 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2011-03-16 20:12:10 UTC --- Can we consider that fixed or we still need to do anything? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.