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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 01:39 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: |
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>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 14:59 +0200, Beso wrote: |
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>> >> 2009/5/9 Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com> |
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>> >> # eselect java-nsplugin list |
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>> >> Available 32-bit Java browser plugins |
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>> >> [1] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 current |
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>> >> [2] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-plugin2 |
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>> >> Available 64-bit Java browser plugins |
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>> >> [1] sun-jdk-1.6 |
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>> >> |
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>> >> I have blackdown java installed but it does not show up in |
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>> >> eselect. Why is that? |
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>> >> |
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>> >> When I start firefox-bin & goto about:plugins it says "no |
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>> >> plugins |
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>> >> installed", despite this symlink: |
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>> >> /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so -> |
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>> >> /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-javaplugin.so |
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>> >> |
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>> >> When I use 64 bit firefox with the sun jdk it comes up and |
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>> >> 'sort of' |
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>> >> works, sort of doesn't. In general |
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>> >> I hate it because its flaky, & consistently fails on 1 big |
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>> >> applet. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> I was previously using the blackdown plugin, however if I |
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>> >> manually |
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>> >> create the symlink, firefox will not start up, it Segmentation |
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>> >> fault's. This is the symlink I setup: |
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>> >> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so -> |
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>> >> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so |
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>> >> I also tried pointing it to |
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>> >> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so |
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>> >> which also causes a Segmentation fault. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> I dont care whether I use 32 or 64 bit firefox, I just want |
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>> >> java to |
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>> >> work reliably. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> Googling, a lot of people are getting Segmentation faults, |
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>> >> with the |
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>> >> suggestion "use blackdown". However even mozilla's plugin page |
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>> >> does |
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>> >> not give the symlinks to use. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> This page http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/ |
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>> >> says to make the source libjavaplugin_oji.so |
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>> >> If I use that or javaplugin_oji.so firefox starts but |
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>> >> about:plugins |
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>> >> shows no plugins installed. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> My googling isn't turning up much helpful, I suspect I just |
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>> >> don't know |
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>> >> enough to provide good keywords. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> |
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>> >> drop the blackdown java and use the official 1.6 release. the latest |
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>> >> one provides 32 and 64 bit plugins. the blackdown java is really a bad |
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>> >> piece of code now. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> -- |
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>> >> dott. ing. beso |
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>> > |
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>> > java-config not eselect with java |
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>> |
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>> I java-config bacl top the sun one: |
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>> The following VMs are avilable for generation-2: |
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>> 1) Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.03 (blackown-jre-1.4.2) |
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>> 2) Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.13 (emul-linux-x86-java-1.6) |
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>> *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.13 (sun-jdk-1.6) |
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>> |
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>> Started firefox & about:plugins shows no plugins. |
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>> So I also did eslect java-nsplugin: |
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>> : |
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>> Avialble 64-bit Java browser plugins |
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>> [1] sun-jdk-1.6 current |
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>> |
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>> Started firefox & no plugins. |
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>> I traced the symbolic links & manually set it to |
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>> /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so |
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>> which also did not work. |
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>> This is all really weird because I had it working with sun-jdk earlier. |
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>> I also found /opt/firefox/plugins was point to |
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>> /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins. I repointed this to lib64 & got this |
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>> error: |
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>> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library |
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>> /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so [...: wrong ELF class: |
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>> ELFCLASS64 |
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>> from firefox-bin (which I'm using for mail so I can start/stop firefox |
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>> at will. I suspect that /opt/firefox/plugins is just for firefox-bin. |
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>> |
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> You can install a Java plugin for your web browser by emerging a Java VM |
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> with the nsplugin USE flag set. Perhaps the use flag got lost? |
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I thought of that, its in make.conf & emerge --info. |
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To be sure I rebuild sun-jdk & firefox. |
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sun-jdk has the nsplugin use flag set & firefox has the java use flag set. |
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Still no plugins, grrr. |
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