icedtea6-plugin does not work, java using 100% cpu

[João Pinto]

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

I have installed the icedtea6-plugin package.
Tested it by visiting:
http://www.javatester.org/version.html

A box is shown where the version was expected to appear and a java process is launched using 100% of CPU.

[Emilio (turl)]

I can confirm this. I'm on Jaunty amd64.

Maybe related with https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329404 ?

  Installed: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ubuntu.patan.com.ar jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

I can confirm this issue:
icedtea-gcjwebplugin:
  Installed: 1.0-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1.0-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1.0-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2009-03-21 14:25 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java

openjdk-6-jre:
  Installed: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Forgot to say I am on Jaunty i386.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

The plugin works in opera.
Seems to be firefox related.

opera:
  Installed: 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3
  Candidate: 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3
  Version table:
 *** 9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

Confirmed.

Plugin eats 100% of CPU when it's started in FF.

FF can't be closed properly either...window closes, but FF process eats 100% CPU after closing the window.

The very same plugin used in konqueror (kde4.x in jaunty) works as expected and doesn't eat the whole CPU..

[Ryan Williams (theamazingjanet)]

This is the output I got when trying to set openjdk as default via the terminal. Hope this is useful.

I noticed that appletviewer it mentions as not existing appears to simply be renamed to pluginappletviewer.