155849 - typing "about:plugins" in address bar will not show that i have java plugin installed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[adam dudek]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408
BuildID:    2002040813

Typing "about:plugins" in the address bar will not show that i have java2
installed and does not work on any page using java.  I have installed and linked
(sun java 1.3.1) /xxx/libjavaplugin.oji to /xxx/mozilla/plugins. This problem
has occured on red hat linux 7.1 and currently 7.3 with mozilla .9x's to 1.0.  I
have used "export=LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" as root and regular user.  However I
have found that if I let redhat install mozilla when installing a fresh linux
installation everything works fine.  Also, if I use IBMJava2 with
"export=LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" it will work. The problem with this is that I
will have to continue using mozilla .99 and an old version of java2. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type "about:plugins" in the address bar
2.
3.

Actual Results:  mozilla displays only:

libnullplugin

Expected Results:  mozilla should say"

libnullplugin
libjavaplugin_oji
   java-xxx
   java/bean .....etc.

Problem replicated on redhat 7.1 and 7.3
Problem replicated on serveral mozilla builds .9x to 1.0
Used 2 versions of java for verification
     -sun java2 jre1.3.1
     -ibm java2 jre1.2.x
Used "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" in .bashrc as root and user
Java will work when installing mozilla during a new linux install

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Reporter: do you tried with a younger mozilla version ? 1.0 is out and 1.0.1 is
near releasing :-)

Comment 2

[adam dudek]

This bug is very close to bug #84093 but is simply the lack of java being
detected. I believe may be more related to the presence of some redhat package.
 I also doubt that a newer build will solve the problem considering so far it
happens on every build I have had over the past year.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

WFM in build 2002070204 PC/Win98.

Comment 4

[adam dudek]

Today I found that it was caused by the lack of redhat compat-libstcd++ that
caused java plugin not to register.