Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble with both 32bit & 64bit java in firefox
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 13:35:27
Message-Id: 1241876122.23247.1.camel@oddman.donahues.us.
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble with both 32bit & 64bit java in firefox by Beso
1 On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 14:59 +0200, Beso wrote:
2 > 2009/5/9 Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>
3 > # eselect java-nsplugin list
4 > Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
5 > [1] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 current
6 > [2] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-plugin2
7 > Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
8 > [1] sun-jdk-1.6
9 >
10 > I have blackdown java installed but it does not show up in
11 > eselect. Why is that?
12 >
13 > When I start firefox-bin & goto about:plugins it says "no
14 > plugins
15 > installed", despite this symlink:
16 > /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
17 > /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-javaplugin.so
18 >
19 > When I use 64 bit firefox with the sun jdk it comes up and
20 > 'sort of'
21 > works, sort of doesn't. In general
22 > I hate it because its flaky, & consistently fails on 1 big
23 > applet.
24 >
25 > I was previously using the blackdown plugin, however if I
26 > manually
27 > create the symlink, firefox will not start up, it Segmentation
28 > fault's. This is the symlink I setup:
29 > /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
30 > /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
31 > I also tried pointing it to
32 > /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
33 > which also causes a Segmentation fault.
34 >
35 > I dont care whether I use 32 or 64 bit firefox, I just want
36 > java to
37 > work reliably.
38 >
39 > Googling, a lot of people are getting Segmentation faults,
40 > with the
41 > suggestion "use blackdown". However even mozilla's plugin page
42 > does
43 > not give the symlinks to use.
44 >
45 > This page http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
46 > says to make the source libjavaplugin_oji.so
47 > If I use that or javaplugin_oji.so firefox starts but
48 > about:plugins
49 > shows no plugins installed.
50 >
51 > My googling isn't turning up much helpful, I suspect I just
52 > don't know
53 > enough to provide good keywords.
54 >
55 >
56 > drop the blackdown java and use the official 1.6 release. the latest
57 > one provides 32 and 64 bit plugins. the blackdown java is really a bad
58 > piece of code now.
59 >
60 > --
61 > dott. ing. beso
62
63 java-config not eselect with java

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble with both 32bit & 64bit java in firefox Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>