Re: ImageJ hangs up MacOS X 10.4.5 when SavingAs -- JFileDialog possible culprit

Posted by Wayne Rasband on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-hangs-up-MacOS-X-10-4-5-when-SavingAs-JFileDialog-possible-culprit-tp3703380p3703381.html

ImageJ 1.37a, available at <http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/notes.html>,  
fixes a bug that could cause ImageJ to hang when saving if "Use  
JFileChooser to Open/Save" was checked in the Edit>Options>Input/Output  
dialog.

-wayne

On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Cezar M. Tigaret wrote:

> Dear Wayne and ImageJ users,
>
> I apologise if you find this redundant on the mailing list.
>
> If not, then please read on.
>
> Running ij version >= 1.35p on a MacOS X we got symptoms
> very similar to those described on a very recent mailing list thread:
>
>  https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0602&L=IMAGEJ&D=0&I=-3&P=17614
>
> Basically, we ImageJ erratically hang up after calling the  
> File/SaveAs...
> menu item (i.e. before the file selector dialog becomes visible).
> This is regardless of the ij.jar version -- it also happens with  
> ij.1.37a.
>
> We're running ImageJ on Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5, 2 GB DDR2
> SDRAM machines, MacOS X 10.4.5, JDK 1.5.0 release 3 upgrade.
>
> Two consecutive thread dumps on the G5 machines hinted that the
> deadlock occurred in swing's JFileChooser (see the fragment at the end  
> of my message).
>
> We found the solution to be disabling the use of JFileChooser
> in Edit|Options|Input/Output dialog and hence reverting to
> the awt's own file dialog.
>
> The down side of it is that one cannot use multiple selections
> in the file  dialogs anymore.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Cezar
>
> P.S.
>
> Interestingly enough, this never had occurred on a Linux x86 box
> (stock SuSE 10.0) also with 2 GB RAM, and JDK 1.5.0 that came with the  
> distribution.
>
> ====================
> Thread dump fragment:
> ===================
>   Full thread dump Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-48 mixed mode):
>
> "Tiff..." prio=4 tid=0x00532d90 nid=0x19b3200 waiting for monitor entry
> [0xf0e8c000..0xf0e8dad0]
> at  
> apple.laf.AquaDirectoryModel.getRowCount(AquaDirectoryModel.java:183)
> - waiting to lock <0x065f5ca8> (a java.lang.Object)
> at javax.swing.JTable.getRowCount(JTable.java:1797)
>
> <------------
> snip----------------------------------------------------------->
>
> at java.awt.Window.pack(Window.java:495)
> at javax.swing.JFileChooser.createDialog(JFileChooser.java:772)
> at javax.swing.JFileChooser.showDialog(JFileChooser.java:708)
> at javax.swing.JFileChooser.showSaveDialog(JFileChooser.java:645)
> at ij.io.SaveDialog.jsave(SaveDialog.java:95)
>
> <------------
> snip----------------------------------------------------------->
>
> "Thread-2" os::get_native_priority: pthread_getschedparam failed: 3
> prio=11 tid=0x005197d0 nid=0x18eac00 runnable [0x00000000..0xf0e8d3d0]
>
> "TimerQueue" daemon prio=5 tid=0x0051a910 nid=0x190b200 in  
> Object.wait()
> [0xf0c89000..0xf0c89ad0]
> at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
> - waiting on <0x07c74128> (a javax.swing.TimerQueue)
> at javax.swing.TimerQueue.run(TimerQueue.java:233)
> - locked <0x07c74128> (a javax.swing.TimerQueue)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
>
> <------------
> snip----------------------------------------------------------->
>
>
>
> --
> Cezar M. Tigaret, MD, PhD
>
> LMP/Pharmacology,
> University College London,
>
> Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT
> United Kingdom
>
> Tel: [phone]
>
> Registered Linux User # 366455
>