189687 - Java plugin fails with error LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189461

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Stephen Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030119
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030119

I built mozilla from source yesterday and received the error:
 LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/local/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[/usr/local/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined
symbol: GetGlobalServiceManager__16nsServiceManagerPP17nsIServiceManager]


So I grabbed today's latest and receive the same error message.  Although
clicking Help | About Plugins shows Java is there, when attempting to go to a
page with a java applet I receive an error stating the required plugin is not found.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Launch mozilla from a terminal.

Actual Results:  
The error appears but mozilla does launch.

Expected Results:  
Launched with no errors and web sites with Java should load normally.

Comment 1

[Stephen Williams]

I went back through the nightly builds, and the last one I was able to use Java
with is 2003011522.  Subsequent ones failed with the same error I posted previously.

Comment 2

[Mitch]

I'm using java plugin on Linux with a more recent cvs build

core ~% /opt/mozilla/mozilla -version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030115, build 2003011512

and it works fine. I think your problem is that you are probably
compiling with a dodgy compiler. Please alway use the 2.95 series
of gcc since the compiler name mangling broke when they went to gcc
3.0 and it couldn't resolve names for the java plugin that Sun compile
with the 2.95 series. 

I believe the fix is also in the latest gcc 3.2 series, but i'm not sure.
If you have the 2.95 series installed,, you can change your compiler
by doing 

make CC="gcc -V2.95.3"

when reubilding mozilla from source.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug. This one is very easy to find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189461 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189461 ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Dave: You build is old.. :-)

Comment 5

[Mitch]

> Dave: You build is old.. :-)

Matti, i can't update my build because of blocker bug 189691 ;-)