id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
6969	JOSM freeses computer completely -> need for hard reset	schlauchboot99@…	team	"Symptom:

The computer freezes quite frequently when I work with JOSM. I have to switch off the computer (hard reset), creating all the problems a hard reset usually entails. The failure occurs in 99% (may be even 100%) of the time when I try to add an attribute (key-value pair) to an object (way or node), in particular when I press the ""add"" button. I cannot remember that the problem occured when I tried to change an attribute. It did not occur when I deleted an attribute, but this is not a strong statement, since I rarely delete something.

Frequency:

Meanwhile (today) with more than every fifth(!!!) edit, which makes it completely impossible to work with JOSM. Remark: I have installed release 4487 of JOSM today, the former release was 43??.

Onset:

Hard to say. My gut feeling says the problem appeared about three months ago and occured rarely, but increased in frequency over time. I regularly install new releases of JOSM from the OpenSuse update site (which may offer only tested (stable) releases). I regularly update JOSM from this site with the hope, that the problem will have disappeared with the new release.

Cause JOSM:

My envirenment (hardware, operating system, Java runtime environment)  has not changed over the last three months, so JOSM itself should cause the freeze. Moreover, I do not have any problems with any other application. Furthermore I am intensively using the Eclipse IDE to develop a Java application, which I also use. Both use the same Java runtime environment as JOSM but show no problem whatsoever. They do not, however, use Swing...

Damage:

The frequent hard reset of the computer is quite bad. Although I frequently saved and uploaded my data today I repeatedly got mismatches in the data which lead to duplicate nodes and ways. I did my best to correct these errors but I am not sure everything is ok now.

My environment:

xxx@localhost:~> cat /proc/version

Linux version 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.5.0 20100604 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 160292] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-20 18:48:56 +0200

xxx@localhost:~> java -version

java version ""1.6.0_22""
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.2) (suse-4.2.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)

My linux box has 8GB of memory.
"	defect	closed	blocker		Core	tested	othersoftware