Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

http://www.emapsite.com/ has a system called plans ahead which I am partly 
responsible for.
It uses a java applet to display mapping, and interacts with javascript on the 
surrounding page.
You have to log in to see the page, but it's a free registration.

Currently on my machine firefox hangs when launching plans ahead, leaving one 
of my cpus at 100%.
I get a grey box where the applet would be, and firefox stops rendering 
completely (dragging another window over firefox leaves a trail that never gets 
cleared up).

I was on jre 1.6.0_10, I tried updating to jre 1.6.0_12-b04 (the latest
from sun), but didn't help.

It always used to worked with no issues on my ubuntu / firebox, and we
haven't altered the applet for some time. I'm guessing what has changed
is an update to firefox, though I'm not sure how long this has been
happening.

I can attach the netbeans debugger to the java process (once I'd figured out 
how to do it), and the java threads all seem to be running without error. I 
think, but I'm not sure that the applet's init() method is stuck on a line that 
reads:
win = JSObject.getWindow(this);
which as I understand it is obtaining a reference for communication with 
firefox's javascript engine (liveconnect?).

Attaching strace with -p to the firefox process rapid and repeated output of 
exactly the following:
strace -p 18213
read(97, 0xbff2ae8c, 4)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
read(97, 0xbff2ae8c, 4)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily 
unavailable)
etc...

I'm not really sure what to make of this at the moment.
I'm guessing it's an obscure bug in ubuntu's build of firefox.


version info:
ff v3.0.6 -  Installed: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
Linux emap-eve-pctim 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 
GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.10
java jdk/jre 1.6.0_12-b04
LSB Version:    
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:languages-3.2-ia32:languages-3.2-noarch:multimedia-3.2-ia32:multimedia-3.2-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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firefox hangs for emapsite applet, strace shows EAGAIN repeatedly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331962
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