When I go to the following URL, firefox hangs when it tries to start the applet. http://games.yahoo.com/downloads/tx.html (I think the URL's right... if not simply find Text Twist on their main page) Except for this page, Java seems to be working fine. When firefox is started from a terminal, it gives this error when it hangs: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0920ef88 *** I'm using Firefox 1.5, with blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03. Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.13-suspend2-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-suspend2-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cscope curl divx4linux dri dvd encode esd ethereal evo expat fam ffmpeg flac flash fortran ftp gb gdbm gif glut gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod ming mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png python quicktime readline recode sdl snmp spell spl sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vcd videos vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS about:buildconfig Build platform target i686-pc-linux-gnu Build tools Compiler Version Compiler flags i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pipe -march=pentium4 -Wno-return-type -w -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -pthread -pipe i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) -fno-rtti -fno-handle-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -pipe -march=pentium4 -Wno-deprecated -Wno-return-type -w -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DARON_WAS_HERE Configure arguments --enable-application=browser --enable-optimize=-O2 --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers --disable-installer --disable-pedantic --enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-zlib --without-system-nspr --disable-updater --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --disable-profilelocking --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-pango --enable-svg --enable-svg-renderer=cairo --enable-system-cairo --enable-ipv6 --disable-xinerama --disable-xprint --disable-freetype2 --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-reorder --enable-strip --enable-strip-libs --enable-elf-dynstr-gc --disable-gnomevfs --disable-gnomeui --disable-mailnews --enable-image-encoder=all --enable-canvas --enable-oji --enable-mathml --disable-jsd --disable-xpctools --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox --enable-extensions=default,typeaheadfind,-venkman --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Works here w/ dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06-r2 (though it "hangs for a couple of seconds - seems pretty CPU intensive). Can you try w/ Sun Java?
It works with sun java 1.5.0.06. I guess it's a blackdown issue.
With Sun Java (sun-jdk-1.5.0.07), and symlinking it to Firefox, Text Twist works for me. I basically followed the http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Java_and_Firefox and replaced Blackdown with Sun jdk.
Java and firefox 1.5 are known to be broken, we can't support it.
