From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 19:33:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA21660 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA21655 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:33:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17294; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from localhost (ejs@localhost) by harlie.bfd.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA25747; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:33:24 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: harlie.bfd.com: ejs owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:33:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Donald Burr cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: JDK and FreeBSD 2.2.5? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Donald Burr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I've gotten and installed the JDK 1.1 (kwhite's version) on my (pretty > stock) 2.2.5-R system. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work right. It > *SEEMS* to compile Java applets OK (although, as of yet, I haven't written > any REALLY COMPLEX applets yet), but when I run them with appletviewer, it > segfaults (Sig11, SIGSEGV). (However, if I try and run this very same > Java bytecode under Netscape 3.04, it works fine.) It also SIGSEGV's when > trying to run large Java applications (such as ICQ). Any ideas? I really > need JDK1.1 or higher, because one of the apps I really want to run (ICQ) > requires it. ICQ has been working solid for me since I upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.5, XFree 3.3.1, kwhite's JDK 1.1, and ICQ 0.95 There's three things that need to be done to the JDK to get ICQ running, and one more to make it run better. First two items are on the kwhite page, though it sounds like you already took care of those (symlinks or patches to take care of /bin/ksh and a library issue). The other essential item is to delete the font.properties* files from the java lib directory. This is probably where you're having problems. Finally, I recommend installing Lesstif 0.82, since most of the ICQ bugs that you'll notice are actually Lesstif bugs, and this fixes most of them (and creates one other bug, but simply resizing the window fixes the problem). Oh, you'll need to go into the lib directory and remove the link to the patched Lesstif 0.79 that is included with the kwhite JDK, and replace it with a link to your new 0.82 library.