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Azureus 2.5.0.4 hangs on Gutsy when adding torrents

Bug #139747 reported by MrAuer on 2007-09-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #57875: Azureus hangs or crashes showing splash screen at start. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	azureus (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Chris Halse Rogers

Bug Description

Ive been running two test systems for Gutsy, both are clean installs from alpha 4 and not upgrades. Running latest up to date packages as of today.

Running Azureus 2.5.0.4 from the tarballed binary they distribute, on both my systems (both Pentium 4 machines).
Azureus will crash every time I try to open torrent files, whether thru the dialogue box Open torrent... or by drag-and-dropping files on Azureus. Otherwise Azureus works, it seeds or downloads torrents that were already open. I think this behaviour started sometime after Gutsy alpha 4, but cannot confirm the exact time. Used to work well on both machines.

Bug is reproducable and happens every time on performing file adds. Have tried removing Azureus folders, both the .azureus and actual azureus ones, for trying a clean Azureus setup - no help.

I can post the Azureus logs if needed, I dont see anything weird there but then im not a programmer :)
I thought Id file this as a separate bug, since this differs imho from the other filed Azureus/Java bugs.

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2007-09-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:

1. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories

However, it sounds like there may be a valid Java bug lurking around here. What version of Java do you have installed? Can you attach the messages Azureus prints to the terminal when you run it & get it to crash from a terminal? You may also want to follow the steps in <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace>.

Changed in azureus:
assignee:	nobody → raof
status:	New → Incomplete

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MrAuer (mr-auer) wrote on 2007-09-20:

Gnu debugger output of Azureus crash, also Azureus' own logs Edit (6.0 KiB, application/x-tar)

Yes, thank you for your response. I know this is an unsupported Azureus version, but I had the feeling it might be Java related more than Azureus related, since it has always worked before (have used the same Azureus version with both Edgy and Feisty and their testing versions). Also there seems to be Java/Azureus issues even with the repository version of Azureus 2.5.0.0 in another bug report.

My Java version is "1.6.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_02-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_02-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
Installed from Gutsys repositories.

I ran Azureus with the debugger attached to that process (as explained in Backtrace wiki), and I will include the debugger log as well as Azureus own log here.

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MrAuer (mr-auer) wrote on 2007-09-20:

And heres the terminal output of running Azureus...

dromedar@Kameli:~/azureus$ ./azureus
Starting Azureus...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
Suitable java version found [java = 1.6.0_02]
Configuring environment...
Loading Azureus:
java -Xms16m -Xmx128m -cp "/home/dromedar/azureus/Azureus2.jar:/home/dromedar/azureus/swt.jar" -Djava.library.path="/home/dromedar/azureus" -Dazureus.install.path="/home/dromedar/azureus" org.gudy.azureus2.ui.swt.Main ''
changeLocale: *Default Language* != English (United States). Searching without country..
changeLocale: Searching for language English in *any* country..
changeLocale: no message properties for Locale 'English (United States)' (en_US), using 'English (default)'

Nothing else is output when the crash happens.

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Federico (81joe81) wrote on 2007-10-21:

I have exactly the same problem.
I think it's mostly a java problem than an azureus one, since the same azureus tarball source was working fine with my kubuntu 7.04
It hangs always when I try to add a torrent; otherwise, it works fine without any exception.

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MrAuer (mr-auer) wrote on 2007-10-21:

Federico: yes, sounds like the same bug, on my system also it hanged every time I tried to add a torrent...I had the same Azureus tarball working in Dapper, Edgy and Feisty.... and then the problem appeared after installing the Gutsy alpha..
Havent tested this now after Gutsy final since I moved to using KTorrent and Transmission because of this Azureus problem.

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Thomas Wright (twright-torrentuniversity) wrote on 2007-10-27: Re: [Bug 139747] Re: Azureus 2.5.0.4 hangs on Gutsy when adding torrents

Ya, I used Azureus with Feisty with zero problems.

Federico wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 57875 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57875
>
> @John Dong: are you sure this bug is a duplicate of bug 57875?
> I'm asking it since the crash related with that bug was used to happen also in Feisty, while this one started only with the Gutsy Java packages.
>
>

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Federico (81joe81) wrote on 2007-10-27:

@John Dong: are you sure this bug is a duplicate of bug 57875?
I'm asking it since the crash related with that bug was used to happen also in Feisty, while this one started only with the Gutsy Java packages.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2007-10-27: Re: [Bug 139747] Re: Azureus 2.5.0.4 hangs on Gutsy when adding torrents

Yes, I'm 99.95% sure the problem is in the general fragility of GCJ
running Azureus. It was never meant to be done, never supported by
upstream, and tends to break whenever you don't rub it in the right
direction. On Edgy/Feisty it worked as long as you don't breathe too
hard on your computer while Azureus is running, but the long-term
correct solution for this problem is to introduce a proper Java stack in
Feisty.

The gutsy backport deb posted in bug 57875 runs on Edgy/Feisty without a
problem, only you will need to install a Sun Java environment for it to
be happy (i.e. it's technically a Multiverse package in terms of Feisty)

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:42:00AM -0000, Thomas Wright wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 57875 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57875
>
> Ya, I used Azureus with Feisty with zero problems.
>
> Federico wrote:
> > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 57875 ***
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57875
> >
> > @John Dong: are you sure this bug is a duplicate of bug 57875?
> > I'm asking it since the crash related with that bug was used to happen also in Feisty, while this one started only with the Gutsy Java packages.
> >
> >