143888 - Release Note (1.0 ~ 1.3a) should emphasize the need to make a symlink to java

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Purkrt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

Could you, please, emphasize (e.g. at
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/#java), that
$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji140.so (e.g.) *does have* to be a
symlink to the real j2re .so file for the java to work properly? This is already
mentioned on 
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/#java, but it isn't said, that it
won't work if one copy the file instead of making the symlink. If it's copied,
it crashes mozilla and gives some not very helpful error messages.

Thanks in advance, I spend half a day trying to get things working.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy the mentioned .so file to $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins
2.open a page with java applet
3.it crashes immediately

Comment 1

[rudman]

-->jatin.

Comment 2

[Jatin Billimoria]

Adam, please put this bug in the Mozilla 1.0 Release Notes Tracking Bug:
Bug 133795

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

-> Endico

Comment 4

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

Owen is taking QA for "repeating relnote" bugs. Sorry for the spam; search for
the previous string to find and delete these messages.

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

fixed

Comment 6

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

*bugspam*