Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:49 -0500 From: gary.rafe@utoledo.edu (Dr. Gary E. RAFE) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape7.1 & Java plugin (Linux) ? Message-ID: <200312241807.hBOI7nZh004346@green.eng.utoledo.edu>
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Seasons Greetings!
We have been using Netscape 7.1 (Linux) since it became available
this past summer, and have been pleased with its stability on our
FreeBSD 4.8-R systems.
Except for one thing -- we haven't been able to get Java plugin
support to work.
Our latest experiment goes like this:
Netscape 7.1:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
Sun Java2 JRE (j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin):
java version "1.4.2_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode)
Symbolic link from /pathto/Netscape7.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to
/pathto/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Netscape starts without complaint.
>From the Netscape menu bar:
* Help -> About Plugins
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03-b02
File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03
* Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console
Console messages:
**************** SERVER ERROR **************
Could not connect to host
**************** ************ **************
**************** SERVER ERROR **************
write_fully: Did not write everything pipe=26 4 -1
**************** ************ **************
At which point Netscape hangs;
'^C' (interrupt) is issued to kill hung processes.
Same thing when we do this as "root".
Same response with Mozilla 1.5 for Linux.
Can anyone comment on (a) what might be missing in our
FreeBSD/Linux emulation to make this work,
or (b) that this is known, in fact, not to work due to some
missing functionality in the Linux emulation.
Cheers!
--
Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.
gary.rafe@utoledo.edu
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