ATTN: Software Experts..Explorer shutting down...

CoralReef · Dec 7, 2005

Sometimes explorer will shut down and a notepad file will appear on my desktop with the following message....

An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Function=Java_sun_awt_windows_WColor_getDefaultColor+0x2E1D
Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\awt.dll

and a bunch of stuff below that message..

Anybody know what the hell is going on...

Thx.

nkhoi · Dec 7, 2005

sound like running out of memory for your java app, right click on my computer , select properties and see how much memory you have.

Waterloo · Dec 7, 2005

The suggestions I've seen tell you to update. Apparently IE tries to launch the awt.dll.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;:YfiG?bug_id=5018872

"Problem is not reproduceable with 1.5.0 B44.
It is reproduceable with 1.4.2_03 and 1.4.2_04.
When problem occurs, stack trace pointing at: ...."

CoralReef · Dec 7, 2005

Quote from nkhoi:

sound like running out of memory for your java app, right click on my computer , select properties and see how much memory you have.

Are you talking about RAM? I have 1 GB. I right clicked on my comp. and am at the General Tab....

Waterloo · Dec 7, 2005

in fact, do yourself a favour - switch to firefox.
1.5 rolled out on Friday, i believe.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

CoralReef · Dec 7, 2005

Quote from Waterloo:

The suggestions I've seen tell you to update. Apparently IE tries to launch the awt.dll.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;:YfiG?bug_id=5018872

"Problem is not reproduceable with 1.5.0 B44.
It is reproduceable with 1.4.2_03 and 1.4.2_04.
When problem occurs, stack trace pointing at: ...."

Interesting...looks like thats pretty much what I'm experiencing. So, I need to update JAVA?

nononsense · Dec 7, 2005

Try Firefox.

Waterloo · Dec 7, 2005

That's right,

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Select the middle link. It says. "Download JRE 5.0 Update 6"

CoralReef · Dec 7, 2005

Quote from Waterloo:

in fact, do yourself a favour - switch to firefox.
1.5 rolled out on Friday, i believe.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

I always assume that Mr softy trys to make your internet experience a lousy one when using a non-msft browser. Thats my conspiracy theory...

CoralReef · Dec 7, 2005

Quote from Waterloo:

That's right,

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Select the middle link. It says. "Download JRE 5.0 Update 6"

OK, I'll give that a shot first before I get fed up and try firefox.

Thanks for your help.