Java crashes in Mozilla Firefox

[Ian Malone]

On 8 October 2011 09:05, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:
> On 08.10.2011, Per Anton Rønning wrote:
>
>> Error occurred during initialization of VM
>> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object
>
>> Ring a bell?
>
> Unfortunately not. Does this one help?
>
> http://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/06/noclassdeffounderror-exception-in.html
>

I would suggest:
1. Making sure that the symlinked plugin really is symlinked and
pointing to the libnpjp2 in the installed java directory
(/usr/java/jre1.6.0_27/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ?) and is not a copy or
pointing to a copy.
2. Checking 'which java' reports 'bin' in the same install directory
(it would be /usr/java/jre1.6.0_27/bin/java assuming the location from
#1).
3. Checking 'java -version' works.
4. Make sure firefox is not picking up a conflicting plugin from
somewhere else (e.g. ~/.mozilla/plugins), quickest way to do that is
remove your plugin symlink, restart firefox and see if it's
disappeared from about:plugins.

-- 
imalone