Kevin Flynn wrote: > I have had a very strange and intermittent problem with XXE for a while > now, starting from around the time I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 about 6 > weeks ago. It is difficult to be precise about it, because it has been > very intermittent. > > What happens is that XXE starts up correctly, but when a document is > loaded it appears to load the document (a message is displayed in the > status bar), but the window freezes before the document is actually > displayed. After that the window is usually dead (resize it, and it is > not properly refreshed, nothing works) and the only thing that can be > done is to kill the process. Occasionally, clicking here and there > appears to provoke some action, and the window contents are drawn, but > after that the application is usually (but not always) very > unresponsive. Although the problem is intermittent, it appears to occur > in waves (several hours maybe, where it happens repeatedly and I can't > get anything done) and then mysteriously goes away. Restarting the > machine does not seem to have any effect. > > When the problem is there it makes no difference whether I start a local > copy of XXE or use the Java webstart version installed on our network. > > If I start XXE from a terminal window, no messages are output. > > The Java process is not using large amounts of either memory or > processor time. Increasing the memory parameters in the start-up command > has no effect. > > I have not noticed any problems with any of the other Java programs I use. > > Today, after a really bad few hours, I started trying different versions > of Java. I was running 1.6.0.16. I uninstalled and re-installed, and for > some reason ended up with 1.6.0.15 - no improvement. I then installed > 1.6.0.10, and (cross fingers) so far, it seems to be working OK. > > Any ideas? Anybody else experienced anything similar?
See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/known_problems.html#problems_on_linux --- XXE randomly hangs for a couple of minutes. This seems to only happen on Linux with a Java^TM runtime 1.6+. Workaround: using an external application, update the contents of the clipboard by copying a small piece of text. --- I'm sorry but we currently do not how to reproduce this problem for sure and thus, solve it. Note that this problem seems to be specific to X11 (AKA X-Window) + Java 1.6. It never occurs with Java 1.5 or on Windows/Mac OS X.
