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Crashing on linux
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:21 pm
by 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?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:45 pm
by 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
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:03 pm
by 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.
error and solution found
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:31 pm
by ningham
Finally found a crash log from Java.
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# 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.