[Klug-general] Java problems on upgrade

[danattwood]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> Thanks for the interest and support Stuart. But I finally lost patience 
> with it when it failed to find my CDs. It will find system DVDs but when 
> I put a music CD in the slot it simply ignored it.
>
> I re-installed Mandriva 2008 (32 bit) yesterday afternoon, updated 
> on-line this morning and am back to square one with everything working 
> faultlessly.
>
> I think I will let Mandriva work on their 64-bit offering for another 
> couple of years before trying it again.
>
> It's broke.
>
> But thanks for trying to help.
>
> MikeR
>
> Stuart Brand wrote:
>   
>> 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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I think it's probably unfair to say that it's broke - however like all 
64 bit linux distros I've tried it's probably  much better suited to be 
a server at the moment rather then a desktop machine. I've recently gone 
back to 32bit ubuntu on my desktop as I got fed up have to try to make 
things work - with 32bit it's not a problem.