On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:08:52 -0500, Gene Smith <gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I installed the blackdown 64 bit j2re package as described here: > > > > http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=138909#post138909 > > > > The AMD64 Sun versions do not seem to have plugins yet. > > > > However, when I go to the the menus along the top of this site > > http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/ > > e.g. "JAVA Applets" Firefox crashes. > > > > I have the depreciated xorg libs installed as mentioned in the 1st link > > above. > > > > Can other AMD64 users access this site with a x86_64 type java plugin > > installed without crashing FF? > > > > -gene > > > > Hi Gene, > Yes, I see the same behavior as you. I just tried installing just the > plugin and Firefox does crash when trying to view that website. I > created a /usr/lib64/java-plugin/ directory, copied the file there, > and linked from /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0/plugins/ I also tried adding > the directory where I unpacked the files in the path > (~/download/java64/j2re1.4.2/bin), but that did not help. > Here is the output of running firefox and then navigating to the above website: > $ firefox --verbose > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2 > < > System error?:: No such file or directory > > ** (Gecko:3990): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16 > > ** (Gecko:3990): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14 > INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from child process > System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable > > I also have the deprecated libs packages installed. > > Running "java_vm" by itself gives an interesting result: > $ java_vm > java_vm process: could not find Java VM symbols > > I think I'll go back to 32-bit firefox for now. May not help. I started another thread recently complaining that this exact same site crashed the Sun Java 1.4.2_06 plugin in FF on ia32. The solution was to move to the Sun Java 1.5.0_01 plugin. You might want to try that before abandoning x86_64 entirely. > > Jonathan > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
