Re: [gentoo-amd64] trouble with both 32bit & 64bit java in firefox

[Beso]

2009/5/9 Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@×××××.com>

> # eselect java-nsplugin list
> Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
>  [1]  emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 current
>  [2]  emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-plugin2
> Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
>  [1]  sun-jdk-1.6
>
> I have blackdown java installed but it does not show up in eselect. Why is
> that?
>
> When I start firefox-bin & goto about:plugins it says "no plugins
> installed", despite this symlink:
> /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
> /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-javaplugin.so
>
> When I use 64 bit firefox with the sun jdk it comes up and 'sort of'
> works, sort of doesn't. In general
> I hate it because its flaky, & consistently fails on 1 big applet.
>
> I was previously using the blackdown plugin, however if I manually
> create the symlink, firefox will not start up, it Segmentation
> fault's. This is the symlink I setup:
> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> I also tried pointing it to
> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
> which also causes a Segmentation fault.
>
> I dont care whether I use 32 or 64 bit firefox, I just want java to
> work reliably.
>
> Googling, a lot of people are getting Segmentation faults, with the
> suggestion "use blackdown". However even mozilla's plugin page does
> not give the symlinks to use.
>
> This page http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
> says to make the source libjavaplugin_oji.so
> If I use that or javaplugin_oji.so firefox starts but about:plugins
> shows no plugins installed.
>
> My googling isn't turning up much helpful, I suspect I just don't know
> enough to provide good keywords.
>
>
drop the blackdown java and use the official 1.6 release. the latest one
provides 32 and 64 bit plugins. the blackdown java is really a bad piece of
code now.

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dott. ing. beso