CentOS - Aug 2014 - Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

Hi,

After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer
works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and
no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The
"openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though,
and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.

Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the
problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't
load (can't see anything in the browser console)?

Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all
"notified" system updates.

- Toralf

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On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund <Toralf.Lund at pgs.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no
longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't
load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The
"openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though,
and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to
diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just
won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
>
> Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all
"notified" system updates.
>
> - Toralf
>
Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does
it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using
the following command:

	readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so

-- 

Liam