Mozilla 1.7.2 crash with java on Fedora Core 2

[Mike Iglesias]

> Any difference in video driver?  I've heard of some video drivers
> causing the JVM to crash, but I think that's usually ATI drivers on
> Windows.

Both systems are using NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX video boards.  One system is
an Athlon CPU, the other (the one that doesn't work right) is a dual
Opteron system installed with the i386 distribution, not the x86_64.
Both are up to date on patches, and both are running 2.6.8-1.521 kernels
(the dual Opteron is running the -smp kernel).

> Is there any way you can get appletviewer to run the applet, rather
> than using Mozilla? That would at least separate Mozilla and the JVM.

It's something in java:

draco> /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java -version
Segmentation fault

Here are the last few lines of an strace of the above command:

mkdir("/tmp/hsperfdata_iglesias", 0755) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
lstat64("/tmp/hsperfdata_iglesias", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/hsperfdata_iglesias/1067", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 3
ftruncate(3, 16384)                     = 0
mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xf6ffc000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap2(0xfee0e000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfee0e000
mprotect(0xfee0e000, 12288, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap2(0xfee04000, 40960, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfee04000
sigaltstack({ss_sp=0xfee04000, ss_flags=0, ss_size=40960}, NULL) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [HUP INT QUIT USR2 TERM CHLD], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

and here's a stack trace from gdb on a core file:

#0  0x00664514 in JVM_handle_linux_signal ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#1  0x00663728 in signalHandler ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x0080eb44 in code_template.15742 ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#4  0x00665257 in os::Linux::init_thread_fpu_state ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#5  0x00661655 in os::create_attached_thread ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#6  0x0066422c in os::create_main_thread ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#7  0x006ab7c5 in Threads::create_vm ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#8  0x005d21d8 in JNI_CreateJavaVM ()
   from /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so
#9  0x0804aea3 in ?? ()
#10 0xfefff814 in ?? ()
#11 0xfefff810 in ?? ()
#12 0xfeffd780 in ?? ()
#13 0x0805813c in ?? ()
#14 0x00000000 in ?? ()


Mike Iglesias                          Email:       iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine       phone:       949-824-6926
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