JDK-6643773 : New plug-in is crashing IE when used with Kernel JRE
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 6u10
  • Priority: P1
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2007-12-19
  • Updated: 2010-09-08
  • Resolved: 2008-01-29
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JDK 6
6u10 b10Fixed
Related Reports
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JDK-6644181 - Fail more gracefully if bootstrapping fails
Description
Attempting to view any applet from Internet Explorer using the Kernel JRE causes the browser to immediately crash.  This is evidently caused by interaction between the new plug-in and Kernel, as Firefox (which uses the old plug-in) works fine.  It fails even if all of the bundles have been downloaded;  the determining factor is whether or not the JRE has been completely reassembled.
Comments
EVALUATION There were two issues: 1) The new plug-in was looking for "client" and "server" JVMs, but not "kernel". 2) There was a race condition with the "initialized" variable in Java_VM.c. Presumably the fact that Kernel was having to perform a download, and thus dramatically altering the timing, was causing this to manifest.
20-12-2007