192657 - Java plugin fails to load on Mozilla startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189461

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

I installed the JRE (version 1.4.1_01) on a fresh install of Redhat 8.0 and
created a symlink from the latest mozilla debug build's plugin directory into the 
libjavaplugin_oji.so shared lib.

But, when I run Mozilla, I get the following error dumped to the console:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined
symbol: GetGlobalServiceManager__16nsServiceManagerPP17nsIServiceManager]
LoadPlugin() /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
returned 0

CCing a few linux hackers in the hopes that they can help...

Comment 1

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Seems like the plugin is calling GetGlobalServiceManager which lives in
nsServiceManagerObsolete.cpp?  So, this is either the plugin's fault for
exercising an obsolete API or Mozilla's fault for breaking backwards compatibility.

CCing some OJI/Java gurus...

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

nisheeth: 
Which Mozilla Build ?
Is this a self-compiled Build with Gcc3.2 (bug 116444)or an old build from the
last week (bug 189461) ?

Should be a dupe of bug 189461 but without build ID....

Comment 3

[timeless]

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