java and firefox crashes on FC13

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/05/2010 03:41 AM, Alex wrote:

> Has anyone else experienced a large number of firefox crashes in the
> last few days with FC13? I have all the latest updates for x86_64, and
> I believe the recent java updates have caused some instability with
> firefox:
> 
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-46.1.8.3.fc13 Wed 01 Dec 2010 10:02:28 PM EST
> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-46.1.8.3.fc13      Wed 01 Dec 2010 10:02:16 PM EST
> 
> The bug reporting tool thing reports SIGSEGV (signal 11), but doesn't
> really describe the cause. It seems to happen when visiting a page
> that requires java.

Can you give us a bit more information?

We'll need

Your architecture
The web pages you visited
The exact Firefox you have installed
The actual error message

Bear in mind that Java's segfault handler catches and prints the error,
but the actual fault may not be in Java itself.

Andrew.