Subject: Re: Java plugin for mozilla 0.9.7
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 09:28:40 MST
I followed your guidelines, but I'm still stuck.
I used the RPM's you specified, and even installed the mozilla tarball
that you specified in my homedirectory.
If I then execute mozilla without anything and try to load a webpage
with Java content, then it asks me to download the appropriate plugin.
From that I conclude that mozilla doesn't automatically find the plugin
in its default location.
So I follow the recommendations I get and make a softlink from the
plugin (libjavaplugin_oji.so) to the mozilla plugins directory.
Starting mozilla results in a crash (core dump) as soon as a webpage
with java content is loaded.
So here's a few questions that you could maybe help me out with:
- Some documentation on the Blackdown Java 2 Runtime environment mention
that it is dynamically linked with OpenMotif. I checked my installation,
and I sure don't have openmotif installed on my machine. I do have the
lesstif package though. Did you install openmotif ?
- What exactly is in your mozilla plugins directory ? javaplugin.so or
libjavaplugin_oji.so ?
Thank you,
Geert Janssens
Avinash Gupta wrote:
> I downloaded the jdk 1.3 RPMs from:
>
> http://cable.linuxppc.org:8080/software/index/linuxppc_stable/software/Development/Languages/jdk-1.3.0-FCSa.ppc.html
>
> I ALSO have the IBM JRE installed on my machine. You can get it from:
>
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/yellowdog/1.0/extras/yellowdog-2.1/ppc/IBMJava2-JRE-1.3.0-3.ppc.html
>
> I don't know if you really need to install the IBM jre, but since it is
> installed on my machine and Java support works in Mozilla 0.9.7, I am adding
> it as a step here.
>
> I also made sure the 'java' executable was in my PATH. Just to be sure, I
> added it both to /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc
>
> e.g.
>
> PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/jdk13/bin:/usr/lib/jre/jre/bin"
> export PATH
>
> To make sure the java executable is found, after adding it to your profile
> and bashrc, open a Konsole or Terminal window in KDE and type:
>
> which java
>
> You should get:
>
> /usr/local/jdk13/bin/java
>
> If not ... then your path is still incorrect.
>
>
> Having installed the rpm, I got the Mozilla 0.9.7 distribution from:
>
> http://www.thecodefactory.org/neillm/yellowdog.php3#mozilla-0-9-7
>
> I unzipped the mozilla distribution in my home directory, and Java support
> worked right away without having to do anything special.
>
> That's how I did it ... dunno whether it will work for others ;-) Please let
> people know if this procedure works for you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
>
> On Sunday 23 December 2001 10:01, you wrote:
>
>>Ok, I am trying to get the java plugin installed for mozilla, but I
>>don't seem to get anywhere here.
>>
>>First I just used the (blackdown) j2re-1.3.0 rpm package that was on the
>>yellowdog 2.1 distribution, together with mozilla 0.9.6.
>>
>>I first tried to create a softlink to javaplugin.so as described in the
>>README file that comes with j2re
>>
>>Result: mozilla refuses to startup. Instead it outputs the following
>>error message:
>>INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load
>>/usr/j2re1.3/plugin/ppc/libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking
>>error=/usr/j2re1.3/plugin/ppc/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol:
>>XtShellStrings
>>
>>System error?:: Success
>>
>>
>>Next I tried to create a softlink directly to libjavaplugin_oji.so,
>>since a message in the ydl mailing list archive said the java plugin
>>interface for mozilla had changed several times.
>>
>>Now I can start mozilla ok, but as soon as java is required on a
>>webpage, mozilla core dumps ! Here's the error message on the console:
>>
>>Register Env [0] proxyenv=268812592 tid=268550056
>>Register Env [1] proxyenv=276194600 tid=268550056
>>
>>browser flags = 2
>>Create instance called in JavaPluginFactory5!!!!!!!!
>>initilizing the java plugin instantance
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-0.9.7/run-mozilla.sh: line 72: 1884 Segmentation fault
>> (core dumped) $prog ${1+"$@"}
>>
>>
>>In the meantime I have downloaded (the freshly released) mozilla 0.9.7
>>in the hopes that would fix it, but the errors remain the same.
>>
>>My final hope was to download j2re-1.3.0-PL1, since another message in
>>the archives said it was the only working one (thank got for the mailing
>>list archives ;-) ). The only pointer I had for this package is
>>penguinppc.org. But when I try to download the tar file there, I get a
>>404-file not found error ! The same for the other options there.
>>
>>So I'm totally stuck now.
>>
>>
>>Can anybody tell me what is the final and correct way to get the java
>>plugin running ? And where (apart from penguinppc.org) I could try to
>>download the PL1 version of the j2re (or j2sdk, for that matter).
>>
>>All suggestions are more than welcome.
>>
>>Geert Janssens
>>
>
>
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