JPackage Sun Java crashes Firefox

[Alexander Volovics]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:31:13AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> I installed the JPackage java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.06 RPM, and now many of the
> Java sites that I visit crash Firefox.  I am using firefox-1.0-2.fc3.
 
> Running from the command line shows the following.
 
>     [mjs at vincent52 ~]$ firefox
>     *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x081d3ff0 ***
 
> An example site that illustrates the failure:
 
>     http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/pivot/simple.html
 
> Not every applet causes the failure.  For example, a non-interactive
> applet at
 
>     http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/
 
> loads and runs with no problem.
 
> Anyone else experiencing this?  How can I get more information to isolate
> whether this is a Firefox or Java issue?

Matthew,

I have just installed jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin (downloaded
from the Sun Java website) directly and do not experience your problems.
I am also using firefox-1.0.2.fc3.

Alexander