[ale] latest firefox tends to crash on CentOS 4.4 or is it the aged hardware is going?

[Jerry Yu]

guess I spoke too soon. firefox still crashes when it needs to load jvm to
run applet. either version of the plugin will do it.
I used this plugin before with older CentOS 4 and its firefox. Let me try
switching to Java 1.5 sdk then.

#java -version
java version "1.4.2_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_09-b05, mixed mode)

# rpm -qi j2sdk
Name        : j2sdk                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.4.2_09                          Vendor: Sun Microsystems
Release     : fcs                           Build Date: Tue 26 Jul 2005
03:29:26 AM EDT
Install Date: Mon 22 May 2006 02:34:59 PM EDT      Build Host:
localhost.localdomain
Group       : Development/Tools             Source RPM:
j2sdk-1.4.2_09-fcs.src.rpm
Size        : 67661393                         License: 1994-2001 Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Java Software <j2se-comments at java.sun.com>
URL         : http://java.sun.com/linux
Summary     : Java(TM) 2 Software Development Kit, Standard Edition

On 10/3/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> none of the above, actually. It was the java plugin I copied to my
> ~/.mozilla/plugins this morning. I should have used the libjavaplugin_oji.so
> under ns610-gcc32/ instead of the ns610/.
> Strace showed nothing but immediately death. Horrible death too. I
> consumed java plugins of wrong version before. It simply resulted in that
> the applet wouldn't run, but never had this kind of horrible & silent death.
>
>
> On 10/3/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use CentOS 4.4 as my main desktop at work, with all the latest patches
> > (yum often!)  This morning, when I clicked to exit the wiki page at
> > devcental site for F5.com, the Firefox crashed. I checked no left-over
> > processes  before I restarted FireFox.  Pointing to gmail.com or dealsea.com
> > would just crash the browser right away. To no avail, many times of
> > restarting firefox and crashing at first browsing attempt.
> > I 'power' off the boxen, since it hadn't been rebooted since CentOS 4.2anyway.  I heard the disks stopped spinning (an old Gateway 500 mid tower)
> > but the screen stayed at the Gnome Desktop w/o mouse/kbd?!  I pressed the
> > power button to reset it. The boxen came up w/o complains. At first launch
> > of Firefox, it crashed right away, with ' dealsea.com' site. This time,
> > gmail didn't crash, so I can compose this email.
> > Before I go down my own troubleshooting route, anybody experienced
> > similar problems with the latest FireFox on RHEL 4.4 or CentOS 4.4 ?
> >
> > RPM : firefox-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4
> > About: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7 )
> > Gecko/20060915 CentOS/1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text
> >
> > OS: Linux mybox 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Tue Aug 22 23:56:05 CDT 2006 i686
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> >
>
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