On 21 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've been using java (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on > mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a > particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became > impossible to run firebird at all. I reinstalled it; no luck. I > therefore fetched the tarball and unpacked that in /usr/local. > After much messing about I found that the basic problem was the link to > the java library libjavaplugin.oji.so. > > I therefore fetched the most recent version of java (03) and tried that, > but the results were the same. If there is a link to either the ns610 or > the ns610-gcc32 version of the library, firebird refuses to run. > > Has anyone seen anything similar? I can't understand why the problem has > appeared suddenly, since I had not altered either firebird or java. >
I found the problem: I'd changed the entry in $HOME/.mozilla when I upgraged but /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins had a link to the older version libjavaplugin.oji.so, which is incompatible with FB 0.7. A. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
