[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: JDK-8160664 JVM crashed with font manager on Solaris 12

[Phil Race]

On 07/25/2016 07:14 AM, Martin Walsh wrote:
> On 07/22/16 05:59 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> That looks  reasonable .. but before an OK I would like to see the
>> results of running the test case in
>> the bug report after that fix. Run the test case with
>> -Dsun.java2d.debugfonts=true so we can see
>> what the JDK is doing internally. You can add the log to the bug report.
>
> Thanks, I have attached the output of this to the bug.

I took a look through these and "no surprises", so the fix seems fine 
(approved).
Do you need me to push this for you ?


>
>>
>> Basically fontconfig is also likely to be subsequently invoked to build
>> the list of real fonts underlying
>> the logical font names (eg JDK sansserif which is the equivalent of
>> fontconfig's sans).
>> I suspect they will all end up just falling back to the Lucida Sans
>> Regular font shipped with JDK.
>>
>> But for OpenJDK that won't be there .. so you may also want to see what
>> happens if you
>> then delete (move elsewhere) that font from jdk/lib/fonts. Maybe not a
>> VM crash but a Java NPE perhaps
>> as no fonts at all is not a supportable configuration.
>
> Yes, you get a NPE.
>
> # java Family
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

...
Yes, this is what I expected there. Perhaps we should be throwing some 
other kind
of exception here ..  if there really are no fonts anywhere .. but that 
is beyond the
immediate scope of this fix.

-phil.