[ale] help with java crash

[James Sumners]

Asking for help with "why" any program would crash in any way without
providing at least an error message, if not a crash log, is a
completely pointless endeavor. There's nothing we can do to help.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to avoid using java since all these problems have been
> happening with security.  I've actually uninstalled it on all my Windows
> machines.  However, there are a few web apps which require it.
>
> I was running a mint 13 vm in virtualbox.  It has the default java system,
> which I believe is openjdk 6.  I go to java.com, click do I have java?, then
> verify java version.  It crashes and locks up not only the tab in firefox
> but essentially the whole browser.  It also locks up when I try to access
> the web app I'm wanting to use.  Anybody know why it would do that?  Is
> there any alternative other than installing Oracle Java?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron


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