Bug 174632

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
Firefox and Mozilla were crashing when I symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so.  It works when I link directly from the Firefox and Mozilla versioned plugin directories though.  Ideally, I want to have an indirect symlink through /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so so that this plugin can be made an alternative but that fails in a different way (see crash 2 below).  Here are the results of all the different possible combinations:

Direct Symlink:
libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.2/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so

Directory                         Firefox               Mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins          crash 1               crash 1
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/plugins   not found             works
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins    works                 not found

Indirect Symlink:
libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
/etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so ->
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.3/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so

Directory                         Firefox               Mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins          crash 1               crash 1
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/plugins   not found             crash 2
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins    crash 2               not found

crash 1:
Error: could not find libjavaplugin_oji.so
Plugin: can't find plugins/../java directory
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not start JavaVM!

System error?:: No such file or directory

crash 2:
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java" failed: 2
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System error?:: No such file or directory

** (Gecko:13313): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 19

** (Gecko:13313): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 17
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from child process
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable

The plugin not working through a double symlink is predictable given the longstanding bug of IBM's java command not working
through a double symlink.

I've worked around this for the RHEL3U7 and RHEL4U3 packages by installing direct symlinks (the "works" cases above) but I'd like a proper fix for this from IBM if possible.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description for creating symlinks
2. run "mozilla -g" or "firefox -g; "run" in gdb"
3. browse e.g. http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java


Actual Results:  mozilla -g and firefox -g crash with crash 1 and crash 2 error messages when attempting to load a Java applet


Expected Results:  Java applet should load properly

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