Re: Crashes/Hangs on Mandrake 10.0

That sounds like an OS issue. A user application such as Java does not
have the power to take down the whole system.

BTW, if you believe the issue is in Sun JDK, you should definitely
file a bug with Sun. Sorry to hear your past experience isn't good,
sometimes a bug is given a low priority due to its limited impact,
or assigned to the wrong group by mistake, so it may remain under
the radar for a while before being looked at...

regards,
-hui

Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but I couldn't 
> find a bug report link.
> 
> I could submit to Sun, but I've done that several times in the past, and 
> they've never managed to fix anything. They take nearly a year to 
> respond, and then can't reproduce the problem, and dismiss it as nor 
> reproducible. For another bug I reported, they said it was the same as 
> an already reported bug, but haven't fixed that one yet either.
> 
> A program I wrote, scoreRegatta crashes/hangs on Mandrake 10.0, but ran 
> fine on Mandrake 8.0. Even Ctrl-Alt-F2 is ignored! The only way to 
> recover is to hit the reboot button on the computer.
> 
> I was running Sun's v 1.4.2 on both drake 8.0 and drake 10.0:
> 46 pluto ~> java -version
> java version "1.4.2"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode)
> 
> I tried kaffee and gij, hoping these VM's might not have this problem, 
> but neither will run even the most rudimentary gui application.
> 
> I tried blackdown java, which fails the same as Sun's java.
> 47 pluto ~> bjava -version
> java version "1.4.2-rc1"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 
> Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1, mixed mode)
> 
> The crash happens during the initialization phase of scoreRegatta. The 
> progress bar has been as various positions between 50% and 80% during 
> the hang.
> 
> I switched from Mandrake 8.0 to Mandrake 10.0 a few months ago, because 
> Mandrake 8.0 would always hand during shutdown, failing to kill some 
> process, and forcing ckdsk at every reboot.
> 
> Another related reason for switching, is that debugging scoreRegatta in 
> NetBeans would often hang NetBeans. In particular, one java process 
> would be in the "DiskSleep" state, and Netbeans would hang. I would kill 
> the java processes and start NetBeans again. Unfortunately, theDiskSleep 
> process can not be killed! Not even as root, not with -9
> option, and worst of all, shutting down linux would not kill it either! 
> Which would also force ckdsk on reboot.
> 
> The program:
> installation package, including jar file: (README describes installation)
> http://dbh3.us/cgi-bin/getZip/scoreRegatta.zip
> java Source files:
> http://dbh3.us/cgi-bin/getZip/RegattaSrc.zip
> 
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