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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 1996 13:34:32 -0600
From:      "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
Cc:        flaq@synwork.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 3.0 release [problem solved]
Message-ID:  <32541548.B3D@Colorado.EDU>
References:  <199610031725.SAA29297@guava.blueberry.co.uk>

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Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> Have you done mkfontdir in the appropriate directory? This sounds very
> much as though it's an X problem with your FreeBSD box.
> 
> I don't have the precise steps to hand, but search the mailing list
> archives for 'mkfontdir' for a possible solution.
> 
> > I have also been through every suggested step to get Java working
> > with no luck either.
> 
> N
> --
> --+=[ Blueberry Hill                  Blueberry New Media                ]=+--
> --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/     1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+--
> --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk       London, England, SW10 0XE          ]=+--
> --+=[  Somedays, I wonder why I even bother chewing through the straps.  ]ENTP

Well, sorry in advance (I thought this was a useless suggestion
-- no offense meant, I guess I was just being closed-minded),
but luckily for me I decided to try it since I tried everything
else.  I found the following message in the archives and I did
it and now Java works!  I also did a 'xset fp rehash' before I
tried it.  I didn't need to unset anything though, just the
'mkfontdir' from the fonts/misc directory.

Thanks!
Also thanks to everyone else who made suggestions.

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Date:      Mon, 20 May 1996 16:58:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        edward@cpm.telrad.co.il (Edward Beili)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Sender:    owner-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 3.0beta and Java in FreeBSD



> Last night I tried the latest Netscape 3.0 beta on FreeBSD 2.1R 
> (486DX33 with 8Mb of RAM). It didn't run Java applets
> even though Netscape says it should. More over when I attempted
> to use its built-in Java compiler 
> (netscape -java sun.tools.javac.Main Test.java)
> it crashed with "Memory fault" error. I suspect it wants more memory...
> Did anybody have a better experience? For that matter what is the status 
> of JDK for FreeBSD?

Here is one fix (as root):
        cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
        /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir

There is also an environment variable (with a "C" in it if I remember)
that you should *unset* for JAVA to work.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.

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