231624 - mozilla 1.5 works but mozilla 1.6 fails to startup after blackdown java plugin is linked

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[olivier at mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

This works in Mozilla 1.5 (Linux RH 8), same plugin from http://www.blackdown.org
plugin version used is: j2re1.4.2
this fails in Mozilla 1.6 (Linux RH 9) after same plugin is linked, the
mozilla browser will no longer start-up,
printing:
"
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
 
System error?:: Success
"

Notes: mozilla 1.6 installation was made using tar.gz from indiana u (us)
mirror site on top of an unchanged RH 9 Linux installation.
Without the plugin in place the browser 1.6 works fine.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mozilla 1.6 from mozilla.org
2. install j2re1.4.2 from blackdown.org
3. link plugin as follows (per blackdown doc) ~ for /usr/local for example:
ln -s ~/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so ~/mozilla/plugins
4. start mozilla 1.6

Actual Results:  
Mozilla will not start-up:

"
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?
 
System error?:: Success
"


Expected Results:  
Start-up browser window as it does with mozilla 1.5 (test was based on Linux RH
8.0 version)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

[e-mail]: you should not install on top of old installations!
Please try reinstalling and report if that helps.

Comment 3

[olivier at mozilla]

Correction: works with 1.2.1 but NOT with 1.5 or 1.6

Each installation of mozilla 1.5 and 1.6 is was done in a new tree, this is
not installed on top of an existing version of mozilla. There is no
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in the test environment. Both 1.5 and 1.6 are intalled
from www.mozilla.org directly via either the targ.gz or the linux
install, both fail to start (as above) with the j2re plugin linked.

However the original RH 9 installation (unchanged) of Mozilla 1.2.1
works fine with identical plugin. In a different installation (Linux RH 8)
mozilla 1.5 works fine with same j2re plugin version (and Java plugin tests
work).

Comment 4

[WD]

*** Bug 231627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please read bug 229469 if that helps

Comment 6

[Gerry Steele]

I Installed Fedora Core 1 and Fedore Core 2 on separate machines, both come with
Mozilla 1.6.

On the core 2 machine i installed SDK 1.5.0beta2, Core 1 jdk1.4.2_06.

On both machines I ln -s a link in the mozilla plugin folders to:
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

On both ocassions the broswers would try to start but would just not start. No
errors... nothing.

I noticed that firefox still worked fine with the same plugin.

But more importantly, if I started mozilla with a parameter, anything, even a
random string of characters, it starts fine, and recognises the plugin ok.

Can anyone reproduce?

Comment 7

[Pete Zha]

mass reassign to Alfred

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

should work with recent builds and JRE, please reopen if not