Unfortunately, the problem has resurfaced with iceweasel. I purged anything with gcj in the name, including all of openoffice.org, and still no luck. I will try to build iceweasel from the source package and see if I can't debug it.
-Steve levis501 wrote: > > Hi Ananda, > I believe you should log this as a iceweasel bug, and here's why. I had > the same problem and I came > across this note. I removed the bsh-gcj packages, yet the problem still > persisted. When I went back to > aptitude I noticed that there were still config files lingering, so I did > a purge of the bsh-gcj package and > then iceweasel was able to process javascript without delay. > > Regards, > > Steve > > > > Ananda Samaddar-2 wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I found that Iceweasel was consistently freezing when trying to run >> Javascript >> if the the package bsh-gcj is installed. This package is a dependency of >> the >> openoffice.org-gcj package. Removing bsh-gcj fixes the problem. >> >> I am curious as to which package I should file a bug report against, >> bsh-gcj >> or Iceweasel? There are no bug reports against bsh-gcj and I can't find >> a >> relevant report in the iceweasel bts entry. >> >> I'm using Debian Testing / Lenny AMD64. I can provide any other info if >> required. >> >> IMPORTANT: please CC me if replying to this e-mail as I am not subscribed >> to >> either of the mailing lists I've posted this to. >> >> thanks, >> >> Ananda Samaddar. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsh-gcj-package-breaks-Iceweasel-javascript-functionality.-tf4446218.html#a13143617 Sent from the debian-amd64 mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]