On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 19:59, John Wendel wrote: > I just installed the latest JDK from Sun using rpms built with the > jpackage spec file. The install seemed to work properly and everything > that I've tried works, except java web start. > > strace shows the error, javaws looping on > > waitid(P_PID, 3163, 0xbff85180, 0, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > > This is the same bug that was in 1.4.2.crap. bug.sun.com shows that > it's fixed in 5.2 (where's that?). > > If anyone has a fix to share (that doesn't involve a preload .so), I'd > appreciate it. > > Regards, > > John The 1.5.0_3 version has been working for me under FC3 for some time. I loaded the package directly from Sun. You might try that.
