Crashing on linux

[ningham]

I'm having trouble with the latest 6.1 and 6.1.1 release. Oxygen keeps unexpectedly quitting (or crashing?) on me. I'm using SUSE 9.3 with Java 5 update 4.
This is happending whether I use the linux installer, or the generic linux release of Oxygen.
Is anyone else having this trouble? Or know the solutiong/reason?

[george]

Hi,

Crashing means a Java problem, the worst an application can do is to throw and Exception or an Error but it cannot crash. If you have a crach log that may show some information to identify the cause of the problem, for instance on Mac OS X the JVM craches if some fonts are disabled and in that case the solution is to make sure they are enabled.
You may also try using a different Java version.

Best Regards,
George

[ningham]

Thanks very much for the pointer.
Though, I think I'm just going to go back to version 5 for now. I haven't been able to find any java errors, and version 5 has been stable on this machine.

[ningham]

Finally found a crash log from Java.
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x403abf6f, pid=7777, tid=1075185344
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_04-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x24af6f]
#


After googleing, this problem comes from installing an additional language on the system. In this case, I added some UTF8 fonts. Anyway, the solution is simply to reboot. Then, Java's aware of the new language stuff, and Oxygen no longer crashes.

Hope that helps someone out.