From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 12:37:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17562 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17556 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id NAA11384; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 13:34:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <32541548.B3D@Colorado.EDU> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 13:34:32 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton CC: flaq@synwork.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, rpt@sso.wdl.lmco.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0 release [problem solved] References: <199610031725.SAA29297@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ----------------------------- Begin archive message --- Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 16:58:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert 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. ----------------------------- End archive message --- -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \