[Klug-general] Java problems on upgrade

Stuart Brand stuart_mac_admin at me.com
Mon Apr 20 17:43:00 UTC 2009


any error logs? console logs? things like that 



On Monday, April 20, 2009, at 04:15PM, "Mike Rentell" <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>G'day all,
>I've upgraded to Mandriva 2009 (64-bit) and now my Firefox (ver 3.0.8) 
>won't play the Java apps it used to. I suspect it is because some bits 
>are in /usr/lib and some in  /usr/lib64  (i.e. pointer or filename 
>problem) because I have a jvm and all its bits on board and apparently 
>loaded.
>
>/etc/java/java.conf is below:
>
>---------------------------------------------
># System-wide Java configuration file               -*- sh -*-
>#
># JPackage Project <http://www.jpackage.org/>
>
># Location of jar files on the system
>JAVA_LIBDIR=/usr/share/java
>
># Location of arch-specific jar files on the system
>JNI_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/java
>
># Root of all JVM installations
>JVM_ROOT=/usr/lib/jvm
>
># You can define a system-wide JVM root here if you're not using the 
>default one
>#JAVA_HOME=$JVM_ROOT/jre
>
># Options to pass to the java interpreter
>#OPTIONS="-Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D"
>------------------------------------------------
>
>/usr/lib/java is totally empty
>
>/usr/lib/jvm is a pointer pointing to /etc/alternatives/jre
>
>I'm baffled, the java app I want starts up the ftp facility on my club's 
>website and worked OK in 32-bit Mandriva 2008. It loaded the JRE logo 
>and took off. Now it tries to load that page and then hangs.
>
>Any ideas would be most welcome.
>
>MikeR
>
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