[27231] in Athena Bugs
Re: StarBiochem Java applet fails on Optiplex 745s in W20-575
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Sep 11 18:46:19 2008
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:46:03 -0400
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Can you see if this happens on W20-575-80 which I believe might be a
wide-screen 745
but which might not exhibit the problem.
Can you confirm this problem happens on -82, -83, -84, -85 and -86 as
the Open Office problem has been reported to occur?
I'm currently entertaining the theories that:
This problem and the OpenOffice problem previously reported have a
common root cause.
That it is a software issue only coincidentally related to the wide-
screen 745 platform.
That it may be a JRE problem rather than an ATI proprietary driver
problem.
Thanks in advance,
-Bill Cattey
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On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the new widescreen Optiplex 745s in the W20-575 cluster, the
> StarBiochem Java Web Start applet from http://web.mit.edu/star/
> biochem/ crashes with the following error:
> #
> # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
> #
> # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00000000, pid=31441, tid=1827867552
> #
> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.5.0_16-b02 mixed mode)
> # Problematic frame:
> # C 0x00000000
> #
> # An error report file with more information is saved as
> hs_err_pid31441.log
> #
> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
> # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
> #
>
> I've attached the file it mentioned. The error happens on the
> fairly clean sipbtest account, and it can't be reproduced on other
> machines including the HPs in the cluster and an older Optiplex.
>
> Since this is a null pointer segfault that only happens on the
> widescreen Optiplex 745s, I'm wondering if it's related to the
> OpenOffice.org null pointer segfault that only happens on the
> widescreen Optiplex 745s that I reported earlier this week (http://
> diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/bugs/27225).
> It certainly seems likely that StarBiochem is using DRI for
> rendering 3D molecules.
>
> --
> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu<hs_err_pid31441.log>
