On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:27:12 -0700 > From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java? > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:38:38 -0700 > Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> dijo: > >> When I ran firefox from the command line, it started but showed no >> plugins on the about:plugins line. It threw an error to the shell: >> >> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library >> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so >> [/usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so: >> wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64] >> >> >> I next tried a different symlink suggested by another site: >> >> libnpjp2.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so >> >> which resulted in: >> >> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library >> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so >> [/usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so: >> wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64] >> >> Well, there are another 30 .so 's in that directory, I'm not trying >> all of them. >> >> Does anybody know what that error means? Low class elves? > > I have had experience with that error message in the past. It means > that something is 32-bit and you are trying to run it on a 64-bit OS. > Typically the error can be eliminated by installing some 32-bit library > that whatever is complaining thinks it needs. > >> Has anyone got Firefox 3.5 and Java working with x86_84 ? > > I noticed the other day that it was released. But my FF 3.0.11 on > Jaunty x86_64 seems to do everything I want it to do. Unless 3.5 can > get me more sex, I'll wait until 3.5 is in the Ubuntu repos.
ELF is a format for binary executable files. It seems like your firefox is balking at a 64 bit binary. Maybe your firefox is 32 bit. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
