339537 - java plugin 1.5.0.06 works by removing ~/.mozilla only

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180568

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[James Burke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text

Somewhere something's wrong. The java plugin of this version will only be called from webpages after I remove ~/.mozilla (Fedora 5 i386)

The java plugin does NOT work even though it is shown in about:plugins. However removing ~/.mozilla fixed the problem.

I don't know if this is related to a fedora release-- but I believe it's something to do with firefox. 

This version is 1.5.0.1- 32-bit machine ( I heard there's a problem with 64-bit at this time)

For Fedora users(I have the correct symlink.. and I don't need to have java variables setup-- my symlink is libjavaplugin_oji.so: symbolic link to `/usr/lib/jvm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ), follow http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java  -- and if java plug lists but fails to call applets, import your bookmarks after renaming ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla<somthingelse>



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Archaic way to fix problem
1. remove or rename ~/.mozilla directory after installing plugin with appropriate java jre symlink (version used- 1.5.0.06 )
2. The applet site
 ->http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml



I believe this not to be too difficult to repair. I apologize if this is in any part have to do with the fedora distro.. Java is a major component of the web, so I'm check marking that a major feature is broken..

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

You probably "fixed" it by removing .mozilla/pluginreg.dat or .mozilla/plugins/something (where something is perhaps another java plugin)

Do you still have your original ~/.mozilla/ ?

Comment 2

[James Burke]

removing ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat didn't help. The whole point of me bugreporting this is that I should not have to delete ~/.mozilla in order to have the java plugin working.. so there is a bug somewhere.. also there's absolutely nothing in  the plugins directory -- I also tried deleting at one-at-a-time setting/other config files in .mozilla and still no luck.. if necesary I can take steps to see what configuration is bad and report more on this because I still have the original .mozilla directory under .mozilla1 

I also submitted this bug to fedora's bugzilla, (I take note there's a problem with 64-bit processors at this time to have the java plugin working-- as well of th fact I have no selinux enabled which could cause the java plugin to fail)

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, before anything useful can be done here, we need to know what part of your old ~/.mozilla/ made things unhappy.

Comment 4

[James Burke]

What the hell am I supposed to do?

(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes, before anything useful can be done here, we need to know what part of your
> old ~/.mozilla/ made things unhappy.
> 

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Put back the old .mozilla and move things out from it until it works again.  If it's something like prefs.js, you'd also need to put it back and then delete individual parts of it until it works again, and repeat until you identify what the pref is.

Comment 6

[James Burke]

/.mozilla/firefox/cr9s9438.default
a new prefs.js file created after renaming prefs.js to prefs.js_

two excerpts

prefs.js excerpt:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
 *
 * If you make changes to this file while the application is running,
 * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits.
 *
 * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
 * For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
 */

user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.addon-background-update-timer", 1149046486);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer", 1149046485);
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.8.0.1");
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
"

misbehaving config file
prefs.js_ excerpt:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"
# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
 *
 * If you make changes to this file while the application is running,
 * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits.
 *
 * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
 * For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
 */

user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.addon-background-update-timer", 1148849148);
user_pref("app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer", 1148849148);
user_pref("beagle.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.bookmarks.sort.direction", "natural");
user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 98);
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/asher/tmp");
user_pref("browser.download.lastDir", "/home/asher/Desktop");
user_pref("browser.download.save_converter_index", 0);
user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false);
user_pref("browser.offline", false);
user_pref("browser.preferences.lastpanel", 2);
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "about:blank");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.8.0.1");
user_pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadInBackground", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", false);
user_pref("extensions.disabledObsolete", true);
user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "1.5.0.1");
user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.language.group", "x-user-def");
user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 12);
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "monospace");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "serif");
user_pref("general.smoothScroll", false);
user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "en-us, en, fr-fr, fr-ca");
user_pref("intl.charset.default", "UTF-8");
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8, windows-1252, windows-1250, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-1");
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);
user_pref("middlemouse.paste", false);
user_pref("middlemouse.scrollbarPosition", false);
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
user_pref("plugin.soname.list", "libXt.so:libXext.so");
user_pref("pref.advanced.javascript.disable_button.advanced", false);
user_pref("security.OCSP.URL", "");
user_pref("security.OCSP.signingCA", "Builtin Object Token:IPS CLASE1 root");
user_pref("security.enable_java", false);
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);
user_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.add", "");
user_pref("xpinstall.whitelist.add.103", "");
"

Comment 7

[James Burke]

Okay this was not obvious-- There is a bug misinforming from about:plugins which says

java plugin headinfo
"
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_06-b05

    File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_06

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
"
 x x x Enabled 

it says enabled for all Java extensions with this header.

appearing in prefs.js is

 user_pref("security.enable_java", false);

this was changed to true using about:config (boolean key security.enable_java)

There's a bug in "about:plugins" feature-- I'm submitting a bug on this if there isn't one..pretty misleading..

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

There's already a bug filed about this then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180568 ***