On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 01:39 +0000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Drake Donahue <donahu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 14:59 +0200, Beso wrote:
> >> 2009/5/9 Daiajo Tibdixious <dai...@gmail.com>
> >> # eselect java-nsplugin list
> >> Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
> >> [1] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6 current
> >> [2] emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-plugin2
> >> Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
> >> [1] sun-jdk-1.6
> >>
> >> I have blackdown java installed but it does not show up in
> >> eselect. Why is that?
> >>
> >> When I start firefox-bin & goto about:plugins it says "no
> >> plugins
> >> installed", despite this symlink:
> >> /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
> >>
> >> /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/emul-linux-x86-java-1.6-javaplugin.so
> >>
> >> When I use 64 bit firefox with the sun jdk it comes up and
> >> 'sort of'
> >> works, sort of doesn't. In general
> >> I hate it because its flaky, & consistently fails on 1 big
> >> applet.
> >>
> >> I was previously using the blackdown plugin, however if I
> >> manually
> >> create the symlink, firefox will not start up, it Segmentation
> >> fault's. This is the symlink I setup:
> >> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so ->
> >>
> >> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/amd64/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >> I also tried pointing it to
> >> /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
> >> which also causes a Segmentation fault.
> >>
> >> I dont care whether I use 32 or 64 bit firefox, I just want
> >> java to
> >> work reliably.
> >>
> >> Googling, a lot of people are getting Segmentation faults,
> >> with the
> >> suggestion "use blackdown". However even mozilla's plugin page
> >> does
> >> not give the symlinks to use.
> >>
> >> This page http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
> >> says to make the source libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >> If I use that or javaplugin_oji.so firefox starts but
> >> about:plugins
> >> shows no plugins installed.
> >>
> >> My googling isn't turning up much helpful, I suspect I just
> >> don't know
> >> enough to provide good keywords.
> >>
> >>
> >> drop the blackdown java and use the official 1.6 release. the latest
> >> one provides 32 and 64 bit plugins. the blackdown java is really a bad
> >> piece of code now.
> >>
> >> --
> >> dott. ing. beso
> >
> > java-config not eselect with java
>
> I java-config bacl top the sun one:
> The following VMs are avilable for generation-2:
> 1) Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.03 (blackown-jre-1.4.2)
> 2) Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.13 (emul-linux-x86-java-1.6)
> *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.13 (sun-jdk-1.6)
>
> Started firefox & about:plugins shows no plugins.
> So I also did eslect java-nsplugin:
> :
> Avialble 64-bit Java browser plugins
> [1] sun-jdk-1.6 current
>
> Started firefox & no plugins.
> I traced the symbolic links & manually set it to
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
> which also did not work.
>
> This is all really weird because I had it working with sun-jdk earlier.
>
> I also found /opt/firefox/plugins was point to
> /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins. I repointed this to lib64 & got this
> error:
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so [...: wrong ELF class:
> ELFCLASS64
> from firefox-bin (which I'm using for mail so I can start/stop firefox
> at will. I suspect that /opt/firefox/plugins is just for firefox-bin.
>
You can install a Java plugin for your web browser by emerging a Java VM
with the nsplugin USE flag set. Perhaps the use flag got lost?
