GWT hosted mode browser crashes on accessing a protected url

[jfeid]

The GWT development tool (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) on 1.x releases (1.5.3, 1.6.4, 1.7.1) allows to debug a project via a "hosted mode" browser which depends on Mozilla 1.7.12 code.

I have a GWT project which I need to debug. The Java process that runs the "hosted mode" browser crashes with the following error:

java: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so: undefined symbol: PL_ClearArenaPool

This happens when I try to access a protected resource on my project (protected by login form). Also, the same problem exists when accessing a resource by https.

How to reproduce:
Download and untar any of the GWT 1.x releases (1.5.3, 1.6.4, 1.7.1), cd to the "Hello" project in "samples" directory and run:
 * ./Hello-shell (for 1.5.3)
 * ant hosted (for 1.6.4, 1.7.1) -- you need ant build tool here
When hosted mode browser loads, point it to http://www.gmail.com and it crashes with the above error.

I believe it is an Ubuntu-related bug because I 've been working with GWT debugging on Ubuntu nearly 2 years now (since Ubuntu 8.04). Specifically, the bug occurred after upgrading the libnss3-1d from 3.12.6 to 3.12.8. I tried manually to downgrade the library by fetching release 3.12.6 from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.6-0ubuntu3_i386.deb. Now I can access http login forms but https connections crashes jvm this time.

Using Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libnss3-1d 3.12.8-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic-pae 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 30 13:22:14 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nss

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Please reply if this is still an issue on a supported release.