From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 13:43:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C8816A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:43:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DED143D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:43:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [80.192.58.55] ([80.192.58.55]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:44:18 +0100 Message-ID: <43282900.9030901@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:43:28 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050903 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Sanford References: <200509131548.20516.akbeech@gmail.com> <4327E8A6.30508@dial.pipex.com> <43281547.5060809@wilderness.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <43281547.5060809@wilderness.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Sep 2005 13:44:18.0162 (UTC) FILETIME=[673F1D20:01C5B932] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Beecher Rintoul Subject: Re: Firefox and Java (new) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:43:32 -0000 Laurence Sanford wrote: > Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > >> Beecher Rintoul wrote: >> >>> Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and >>> installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get: >>> >>> Applet testvm notinited >>> Loading Java Applet Failed >>> >>> >>> >> Your about:plugins looks the same as mine. Where is this java test >> site? >> >> --Alex >> > This is a little off the topic, specifically, but I have been > struggling with java, and other (flash) plugins and firefox myself. I > have very much the same information as has been discussed in this > thread in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins: > > total 0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 23 08:59 .firefox.keep > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49 Sep 14 06:35 flashplayer.xpt@ -> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/flashplayer.xpt > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 51 Sep 14 06:37 libflashplayer.so@ -> > /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Sep 14 07:07 libjavaplugin_oji.so@ -> > /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > > However, when I use the about:plugins page, it comes up essentially > blank, giving me only the information links about instaling plugins, > etc. I have been working under the assumption that I've done something > incredibly stupid, and attempting to find my error on my own, and have > the sinking feeling that it's probly staring me right in the face, and > I'm just too blind to see it. Do either of you (or anyone else for > that matter) have any advice or hints here, or does this seem as > strange to you as it does to me? I can only repeat what I said before. 1) Check that the symbolic link resolves correctly (ls -lL will show a file, not a link) 2) I'm not convinced that a linux-java is what you want. The other poster installed native java 1.4 and got it to show up as a plugin. That "works" for me. I can use at least one site that has a java applet and it doesn't crash all that often. Whether the linux-java can be made to work, I do not know. AFAIK, the notinited error being described above means a) Java *is* running b) the applet is doing something broken which popping up the Java console might help with. --Alex