Closed
Bug 90095
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
java plugin gets downloaded but wont install
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: bill, Assigned: xiaobin.lu)
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Details
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 BuildID: 2001062823 When I go to chat.yahoo.com I am asked to install the java plugin, which is fine since i dont have the java stuff and yahoo's chat software is java-based. So I get a window that pops up asking me which plugin I want, Windows or Linux. I choose Linux, the software downloads in a few mins (cable modem) and when its down downloading, I get the following error: Install Results Java 2 Plug-in for Linux: Download was unsuccessful. Please try again. The Java Plug-in is 7.6Mb and will take you 37 minutes to fully download with a 28.8 modem or 19 minutes with a 56K modem. Alternatively, you can download this plug-in directly from our FTP site at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/windows/win32/smartupdate/jre13i.exe for Windows. Please e-mail ftp-plugins@netscape.com if you continue to have problems. Error encountered -- -235 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Without the java plugin installed, go to a page that needs java 2. Choose to download the linux plugin (im on debian woody linux) 3. Wait for the download to finish and install. Actual Results: Install Results Java 2 Plug-in for Linux: Download was unsuccessful. Please try again. The Java Plug-in is 7.6Mb and will take you 37 minutes to fully download with a 28.8 modem or 19 minutes with a 56K modem. Alternatively, you can download this plug-in directly from our FTP site at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/windows/win32/smartupdate/jre13i.exe for Windows. Please e-mail ftp-plugins@netscape.com if you continue to have problems. Error encountered -- -235 Expected Results: Installed the plugin and let me use Java :)
Comment 2•23 years ago
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I was having the same problem/error unil I remembered I had installed Mozilla as root, therefor attempting to install the plugin as an other user would fail since /usr/lib/mozilla is read-only. Su'd, ran mozilla, attempted plugin install: Success. Question: Should not a user installed plugin be installed in ~/.mozilla/plugin or similar?
Comment 3•23 years ago
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I get this too. At the very least, the error page should be properly formatted and contain a sensible error message (peferably something like "Couldn't get access to necessary directory, please re-run as root and try again") The current error page is totally unintelligible. Should "better error reporting for failed plugin download/install" be a separate bug report? Even if the Java thing gets fixed, this beahvior sucks for other plugin failures...
Xiaobin, can you please talk to AV and see if it makes sense for you to own this bug? Thanks, Ed
I think so. In fact, I meant to reassign it when I changed component.
Assignee: av → xiaobin.lu
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Comment 6•23 years ago
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I think this is a dup of some bug which has been fixed. Please try to download the nightly build of Mozilla and install java plugin as ROOT. Let me know if you have problem.
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Comment 7•23 years ago
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I downloaded nightly 2001072806 for i386 linux and the java plugin install works! Thanks! :)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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Comment 8•23 years ago
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I forgot to mention before but I submitted this error originally because I did install v0.92 (2001062823) and try to install java all as root and still got the error. But it is working now. Thanks for all your help. :)
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