Java plugin stopped working.

[Deepak Bhole]

* Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> [2008-11-05 14:44]:
> 
> ---- Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote: 
> > * Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> [2008-11-05 13:30]:
> > > 
> > > ---- Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote: 
> > > > * Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> [2008-11-04 10:42]:
> > > > > I'm using 2.22.2 of ephipany and my java plugin seems to have stopped working presumably as a result of a recent update (nspluginwrapper-1.1.2.2.fc9.x86_64?). 
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > Hi Steve,
> > > > 
> > > > If you type in about:plugins in the address bar and hit enter, do you
> > > > see Java in the list that shows up?
> > > 
> > > No,  there is no java in the list.
> > > 
> > > > If it does not, can you paste the output of:
> > > > ls -l /etc/alternatives/*javaplugin*
> > > 
> > > $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/*javaplugin*
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 2008-11-03 14:55 /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
> > > 
> > > Thanks for taking the time to help.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Alright, so that link looks good. We need to figure out now if that plugin 
> > exists, and if mozilla is expected to be seeing it. So, can you post the 
> > output of:
> > 
> > ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
> > 
> > and:
> > 
> > ls -l /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/*java*
> > 
> > Deepak
> 
> [sblackwell at asa-ws-053 ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
> ls: cannot access /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so: No such file or directory
> 
> So that looks like a problem:
> 
> [sblackwell at asa-ws-053 ~]$ locate gcjwebplugin.so
> /usr/lib/gcj-4.3.0/libgcjwebplugin.so
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/gcjwebplugin.so
> /usr/lib64/gcj-4.3.0/libgcjwebplugin.so
> /usr/share/doc/libgcj-4.3.0/README.libgcjwebplugin.so
> 

Yep, so that is definitely the problem. The alternatives seem to be
messed up. Not really sure why that happened. Can you paste the output
of:

alternatives --display libjavaplugin.so.x86_64 ?

(that will tell me if just the link is bad, or if the alternatives
setup itself is broken)

Deepak

> Seems there is an extra jre in the path.
> 
> [sblackwell at asa-ws-053 ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/*java*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2008-11-03 14:55 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
> 
> Steve