AMD64 Firefox Java Runtime and Plugin

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Jonathan Berry wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 01:08:52 -0500, Gene Smith <gds at chartertn.net> wrote:
> > I installed the blackdown 64 bit j2re package as described here:
> >
> > http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=138909#post138909
> >
> > The AMD64 Sun versions do not seem to have plugins yet.
> >
> > However, when I go to the the menus along the top of this site
> > http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/
> > e.g. "JAVA Applets" Firefox crashes.
> >
> > I have the depreciated xorg libs installed as mentioned in the 1st link
> > above.
> >
> > Can other AMD64 users access this site with a x86_64 type java plugin
> > installed without crashing FF?
> >
> > -gene
> >
>
> Hi Gene,
> Yes, I see the same behavior as you.  I just tried installing just the
> plugin and Firefox does crash when trying to view that website.   I
> created a /usr/lib64/java-plugin/ directory, copied the file there,
> and linked from /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0/plugins/  I also tried adding
> the directory where I unpacked the files in the path
> (~/download/java64/j2re1.4.2/bin), but that did not help.
> Here is the output of running firefox and then navigating to the above website:
> $ firefox --verbose
> INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
> <
> System error?:: No such file or directory
>
> ** (Gecko:3990): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16
>
> ** (Gecko:3990): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14
> INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from child process
> System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I also have the deprecated libs packages installed.
>
> Running "java_vm" by itself gives an interesting result:
> $ java_vm
> java_vm process: could not find Java VM symbols
>
> I think I'll go back to 32-bit firefox for now.


May not help.  I started another thread recently complaining that this
exact same site crashed the Sun Java 1.4.2_06 plugin in FF on ia32.

The solution was to move to the Sun Java 1.5.0_01 plugin.  You might want
to try that before abandoning x86_64 entirely.


>
> Jonathan
>
>
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

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