The latest updates to CentOS 5.5 seem to have broken the Java plugin, and have defeated any and all attempts to get it working again. I'm running CentOS 5.5 (32-bit) and Firefox 3.6.9 (installed from the CentOS repository); I've tried BOTH the openJDK plugin available through the Argeo repositories, and installing Java 1.6.0 directly from Sun/Oracle and creating the plugin soft link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Neither works at all. This was working a while ago, but it broke and I didn't notice. Thanks for any help you can provide, -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory
> The latest updates to CentOS 5.5 seem to have broken the Java > plugin, and have defeated any and all attempts to get it working again. > I'm running CentOS 5.5 (32-bit) and Firefox 3.6.9 (installed from the > CentOS repository); I've tried BOTH the openJDK plugin available through > the Argeo repositories, and installing Java 1.6.0 directly from > Sun/Oracle and creating the plugin soft link in > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Neither works at all. This was working a > while ago, but it broke and I didn't notice.Starting in Firefox 3.6.7 (I think) the (Sun) Java plugin changed names. Here is what it should look like ... $ ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jun 24 19:32 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so -> /usr/java/latest/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so The plugin name changed .. the old one plugin is still in the jdk, but will silently fail in the browser. Hope this helps. Barry
> epository); I've tried BOTH the openJDK plugin available through the Argeo repositories, and installing JavaI am the packager of the Argeo version of the JDK containing the plugin. Please first note that the location has changed because some other packages in the repo started to be used more widely and I wanted to clearly separate Java efforts: http://www.argeo.org/linux/argeo-el/5/java-plus/ Please also note that it will probably change location again (we are upgrading our infrastructure) or even disappear if there is little interested (I did not think that anybody else used it). I recommend interested users to download the SRPM as a backup, in order to be independent of future evolutions. Now to your problem: - the plugin is still working for me, and went smoothly through the CentOS 5.5 update (from a package update perspective). - but it is working badly: at some point it starts eating all the CPU and I need to restart Firefox, or even kill the process - the bug for x86_64 has been updated in July and they recommend to try again with the standard version: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=405 Did you try removing and installing the Argeo OpenJdk again? I haven't looked at it yet, but my idea was to try again building the plugin and if it works, to have an additional package only for the plugin, which would not require to update the base OpenJdk (I had rebuilt everything at the time because I also needed 1.6.0-b16 because of some bugs fixed between b09 and b16, not only the plugin).# If there is interest that I keep this effort public, please let me know (off- or on-list). This will give me a motivation to look at it sooner.
On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:> The latest updates to CentOS 5.5 seem to have broken the Java plugin, > and have defeated any and all attempts to get it working again. > I'm running CentOS 5.5 (32-bit) and Firefox 3.6.9 (installed from the > CentOS repository); I've tried BOTH the openJDK plugin available > through the Argeo repositories, and installing Java 1.6.0 directly > from Sun/Oracle and creating the plugin soft link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. > Neither works at all.Thanks to everyone for their help. It turns out that I had two problems: 1) The page that you get redirected to by the Firefox plugin finder links to these (incorrect) install instructions: http://java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml#rpm The correct install instructions can be found at Oracle's website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-linux-rpm-137089.html 2) I was using the Argeo-Plus plugin (32-bit), which appears to be broken. Mathieu, if you get it working again, I'd be happy to use it, but if not, I understand. I was aware that the location had changed (serendipitously), and have the latest version (I've since rolled everything to the Oracle/Sun plugin). Thanks all, -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory
CCing the CentOS group on this... maybe someone there knows how to handle the error. On 09/23/2010 03:19 PM ken wrote:> On 09/23/2010 01:29 PM Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> As it turns out, I don't have the Argeo version. If I'm still >>> having >> But you have the java browser plugin?Sorry to not answer this part in my previous email. I wanted to search around to see if I could get the answer for myself... and it hasn't been easy. Apparently I don't have the java plugin browser installed. I've tried to install it using the rpm.bin file at <http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com>, but it's erroring out: "/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Text file busy". I've never seen that error before.>> >> Can you please send me the output of your 'java -version' command >> please? > > # java -version > java version "1.6.0_0" > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (rhel-1.13.b16.el5-i386) > OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode) > >-- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: <http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/>