From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 10:07:52 2003 Return-Path: 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 8FDAC16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from green.eng.utoledo.edu (smartsys.eng.utoledo.edu [131.183.18.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E5543D31 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gary.rafe@utoledo.edu) Received: from gersun2.eng.utoledo.edu ([131.183.21.44]) hBOI7nZh004346 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200312241807.hBOI7nZh004346@green.eng.utoledo.edu> Received: by gersun2.eng.utoledo.edu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:49 -0500 From: gary.rafe@utoledo.edu (Dr. Gary E. RAFE) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Filter-Version: 1.14 (green.eng.utoledo.edu) Subject: Netscape7.1 & Java plugin (Linux) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:07:52 -0000 Seasons Greetings! We have been using Netscape 7.1 (Linux) since it became available this past summer, and have been pleased with its stability on our FreeBSD 4.8-R systems. Except for one thing -- we haven't been able to get Java plugin support to work. Our latest experiment goes like this: Netscape 7.1: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Sun Java2 JRE (j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin): java version "1.4.2_03" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode) Symbolic link from /pathto/Netscape7.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /pathto/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so Netscape starts without complaint. >From the Netscape menu bar: * Help -> About Plugins Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03-b02 File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03 * Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console Console messages: **************** SERVER ERROR ************** Could not connect to host **************** ************ ************** **************** SERVER ERROR ************** write_fully: Did not write everything pipe=26 4 -1 **************** ************ ************** At which point Netscape hangs; '^C' (interrupt) is issued to kill hung processes. Same thing when we do this as "root". Same response with Mozilla 1.5 for Linux. Can anyone comment on (a) what might be missing in our FreeBSD/Linux emulation to make this work, or (b) that this is known, in fact, not to work due to some missing functionality in the Linux emulation. Cheers! -- Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D. gary.rafe@utoledo.edu