Java Plugin in Chromium Crashes

ewaller · 2010-05-01 16:58:16

I am using an AMD64 architecture and am having trouble with Chromium and Java. Until recently (I'm guessing about a week or two) I had no trouble with embedded Java applets. Last night, Java applets displayed only as a sad faced puzzle piece and a banner telling me that the Java plug-in had crashed. Running from the command line yields the following:

ewaller@odin:~/devel/python/scoreboard 1076 %chromium 
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000042a34b0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x71376)[0x7f1370cfe376]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6c)[0x7f1370d0305c]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_strfreev+0x25)[0x7f13739b9555]
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so(NP_Initialize+0x78b)[0x7f136d18ca8b]
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525[0x15205c7]
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525[0x15e6239]
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525[0x15e543d]
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525[0x42a252]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f1370cabb1d]
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=plugin --plugin-path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so --lang=en-US --plugin-data-dir=/home/ewaller/.config/chromium/Default --channel=28547.0x7fec34860950.1548117525[0x4293b9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-029e4000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 684430                             /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
02be3000-02bfb000 rwxp 025e3000 08:08 684430                             /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
02bfb000-02c75000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
04212000-042b7000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7f1365ef6000-7f1365ef9000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 5962                       /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
7f1365ef9000-7f13660f9000 ---p 00003000 08:08 5962                       /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
7f13660f9000-7f13660fa000 rwxp 00003000 08:08 5962                       /lib/libuuid.so.1.3.0
7f13660fa000-7f13660fd000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 26109                      /usr/lib/libxcb-atom.so.1.0.0
7f13660fd000-7f13662fd000 ---p 00003000 08:08 26109                      /usr/lib/libxcb-atom.so.1.0.0
7f13662fd000-7f13662fe000 rwxp 00003000 08:08 26109                      /usr/lib/libxcb-atom.so.1.0.0
7f13662fe000-7f1366301000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 26115                      /usr/lib/libxcb-event.so.1.0.0
7f1366301000-7f1366501000 ---p 00003000 08:08 26115                      /usr/lib/libxcb-event.so.1.0.0
7f1366501000-7f1366502000 rwxp 00003000 08:08 26115                      /usr/lib/libxcb-event.so.1.0.0
7f1366502000-7f1366504000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 26112                      /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
7f1366504000-7f1366704000 ---p 00002000 08:08 26112                      /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
7f1366704000-7f1366705000 rwxp 00002000 08:08 26112                      /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
7f1366705000-7f136671c000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 28109                      /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
7f136671c000-7f136691b000 ---p 00017000 08:08 28109                      /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
7f136691b000-7f136691c000 rwxp 00016000 08:08 28109                      /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
7f136691c000-7f1366920000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
7f1366920000-7f1366927000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 28115                      /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
7f1366927000-7f1366b27000 ---p 00007000 08:08 28115                      /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
7f1366b27000-7f1366b28000 rwxp 00007000 08:08 28115                      /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.1
7f1366b28000-7f1367c26000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 295193                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
7f1367c26000-7f1367e26000 ---p 010fe000 08:08 295193                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
7f1367e26000-7f1367fe7000 rwxp 010fe000 08:08 295193                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxul.so
7f1367fe7000-7f1368000000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
7f1368000000-7f1368021000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
7f1368021000-7f136c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f136c07f000-7f136c088000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 28708                      /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
7f136c088000-7f136c287000 ---p 00009000 08:08 28708                      /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
7f136c287000-7f136c288000 rwxp 00008000 08:08 28708                      /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
7f136c288000-7f136c2e5000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 28385                      /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0
7f136c2e5000-7f136c4e4000 ---p 0005d000 08:08 28385                      /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0
7f136c4e4000-7f136c4ea000 rwxp 0005c000 08:08 28385                      /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0
7f136c4ea000-7f136c4eb000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 
7f136c4eb000-7f136c529000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 8430                       /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0.0.0
7f136c529000-7f136c729000 ---p 0003e000 08:08 8430                       /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0.0.0
7f136c729000-7f136c72e000 rwxp 0003e000 08:08 8430                       /usr/lib/libhunspell-1.2.so.0.0.0
7f136c72e000-7f136c75f000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 54041                      /usr/lib/libssl3.so
7f136c75f000-7f136c95e000 ---p 00031000 08:08 54041                      /usr/lib/libssl3.so
7f136c95e000-7f136c961000 rwxp 00030000 08:08 54041                      /usr/lib/libssl3.so
7f136c961000-7f136cac5000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 295218                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libmozjs.so
7f136cac5000-7f136ccc5000 ---p 00164000 08:08 295218                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libmozjs.so
7f136ccc5000-7f136ccd2000 rwxp 00164000 08:08 295218                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libmozjs.so
7f136ccd2000-7f136cd51000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 295198                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libsqlite3.so
7f136cd51000-7f136cf50000 ---p 0007f000 08:08 295198                     /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/libsqlite3.so[28547:28547:49031471834:ERROR:chrome/browser/tab_contents/tab_contents.cc(1823)] Not implemented reached in virtual void TabContents::OnCrashedPlugin(const FilePath&) convert plugin path to plugin name
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (ArchLinux-6.b18_1.8-1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

Firefox seems to run Java applets okay,except that, after navigating away from the page with the applet, Java continues to run and consume a large portion of my processor cycles.

The biggest systemic changes lately have been :
[2010-04-25 13:06] upgraded glibc (2.11.1-2 -> 2.11.1-3)
[2010-04-29 23:26] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.11.1-1.3 -> 2.11.1-3)
[2010-04-28 13:49] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.33.2-1 -> 2.6.33.3-1)
[2010-04-28 13:49] upgraded kernel26-headers (2.6.33.2-1 -> 2.6.33.3-1)

I did re-install openjdk6 and chromium this morning just for motherhood to no avail. I found nothing in the Arch forums that are directly related. Some hits on Goggle, but none that really relate (the closest match was a Gentoo bug report in which Chromium segfaults on launch)

On a related topic, I may be confusing Archlinux with Gentoo, but is there not a utility to configure the system as to which which Java, GCC, Python, etc you want to use when there are multiple versions installed?

Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks.

ewaller · 2010-05-02 03:26:13

Responding to self. I installed JDK (which caused the uninstall of openjdk6) and now both Chromium and Firefox behave themselves.

I am not a Java developer (or a license purist) -- I just hack with it a bit to remind myself why I prefer Python and C++. Therefore, I don't think I care which JRE I use. In the mean time, I'll consider this a work around, but I would like to figure out way I can use either.

I am off to explore bugs.archlinux.org

jxhcc · 2010-05-10 17:46:45

I've been having this problem too. I use Midori web browser, which seems to run openjdk6 on startup. It crashes every time.
It crashed every web browser that uses it.

I looked around the bug page for the package, and there are a couple reports. I'm surprised this hasnt affected more people, its not like its a minor error.

I'd prefer to use openjdk, but I guess I'll try your fix. I'll also report a bug on the upstream tracker. There's currently nothing there about any errors like this, which makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong on my end.

oshcha · 2010-05-22 06:00:21

I can approve that I have same behaviour as ewaller mentioned before:
1) JAVA Applets work with firefox, but keeps running after redirecting from site.
2) Chromium display sad face and says "The following plug-in has crashed: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so

Arch Linux

#1 2010-05-01 16:58:16

Java Plugin in Chromium Crashes

#2 2010-05-02 03:26:13

Re: Java Plugin in Chromium Crashes

#3 2010-05-10 17:46:45

Re: Java Plugin in Chromium Crashes

#4 2010-05-22 06:00:21

Re: Java Plugin in Chromium Crashes

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