Bug#1065678: josm: JOSM hangs when downloading Bing imagery, but only the first time in a session

[Andrew Chadwick]

On Sat, 2024-03-09 at 07:49 +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> the workaround is to add the OSM Carto layer first, and then
> add the Bing layer.

This proposed workaround does not work for me. I need to kill and
restart a hung JOSM, and launch it again to get working a Bing layer.
Then (for my main working JOSM), the problem is worked around for a few
hours (estimated) while I edit.

The hang even affects the GUI: nothing responds within it as soon as
the menu item is selected, and the menu itself becomes unresponsive and
does not withdraw.

I have commented upstream that for now this seems to be a Debian issue.
See the comments at https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/23540 for
further detail. Summary: I cannot reproduce this with upstream's josm-
tested.jar, but only with the jarfile in Debian's DFSG build. I am
using the same Debian Java for both tests, using

  $ java -Djosm.home=/tmp/something_new_and_unique \
    -jar path/to/a/josm.jar \
    --skip-plugins --debug

for consistency.

I will continue reporting here, since this seems to be a Debian-
specific issue. I don't have much else to add, however. Happy to try
out fixes as they emerge.


regards,
Andrew