117483 - Java fails to start, offers alert instead

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Rob McMillin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226
BuildID:    2001122617

With Java enabled, 0.9.7 (0.9.6 also) will pop up an alert dialog saying

  This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm)
  that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.

                    Click OK to download Plugin.

But of course the problem is that Java ought to already be installed!

It's hard to tell from the description, but this *may* be the same bug as bug
85076 and/or bug 117473.  The reason I hesitate is that in both these cases, no
mention is made of an alert dialog.  In the former case, mention is made that
the browser hangs; this does *not* happen in my case; the browser keeps running.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See bug 85076.

Actual Results:  Get alert dialog specified above, Java applet doesn't run as
expected.

Expected Results:  Should see news ticker.

Comment 1

[pocemit]

If you are using Xlib build of Mozilla, java does not work.
If you are using GTK build, that's another story.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

oji

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

pocemit wrote:
> If you are using Xlib build of Mozilla, java does not work.
> If you are using GTK build, that's another story.

huh ?!
AFAIK Xlib now has full plugin support - or do I miss a detail here ?

Comment 4

[Rob McMillin]

How can I tell whether I'm using the GTK or Xlib version?  All I know is that
I'm running the i386 Linux RPMs.

Comment 5

[pocemit]

if you don't know, you are using the GTK version

Comment 6

[Jeremy Sanders]

Worksforme with Linux 0.9.7 (default tar.gz with gtk 2001122108) on RedHat 7.2.

Comment 7

[Rob McMillin]

*** Bug 118950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Rob McMillin]

Has anybody used the RPMs and tried this?

Comment 9

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

Could you please clarify the situatios. 
What do you mean "java is already installed"?
  - which version of jre do you have?
  - how did you install it?
  - did you verify existance of symlinks to lib*java*.so?

Comment 10

[Rob McMillin]

This bug should be closed -- my bad, it *wasn't* installed.