88622 - 1. Java not turned on after download 2.Java Plugin does not work on Redhat 7.1 - core dump I have fixes included in report

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[gluck]

After clicking on the Java plugin for Linux it downloads and then says it is
installed.

On restarting the browser, the above site did not display the Java content.
This is because the Enable Java was not checked on the browser. The install
process should do this. Why install if you do not want it activated by default?

After doing this my browser then froze on the page. I examined the plugins
directory and found a core file there. It occurred to me that Java was probably
core dumping. Java 1.3.1 is required on Redhat 7.1 due to changes in glibc. I am
using glibc 2.2-10 whic is the default on this distro.

Changing the symbolic link to point to my jdk1.3.1 directory corrected the
problem. e.g. 
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

The problem can be corrected for all users by getting Netscape to change their
download to jdk1.3.1

Comment 1

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to oji

Comment 2

[Jens-Uwe]

reporter: could you please check the URL? it seems not to exist.

Comment 3

[edburns]

Installation issue, moving to Xiaobin.

Comment 4

[Xiaobin Lu]

I wonder how browser prompts you to download the Java plugin if Java is not 
enabled. 

Comment 5

[Xiaobin Lu]

Reporter:
   Delivering JRE1.3.1 is a political problem between Sun and Netscape, we can 
not control that. I would like to close this bug if that is what you mean.

Thanks!