Java problems on Fedora Core 3

[wizard5233]

So I install the rpm for java onto fedora core 3. I create a symbolic link into the firefox plugins directory. These are the commands I used.

# rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.rpm
# ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.2/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

The symbolic link is there, yet for some reason firefox constantly crashes when I try to open a webpage with java on it. What could I be doing wrong?

 

[statik213]

I remember that there was something wrong with the most current version of Java and Firefox... Try going to one or two versions before the most recent on Java.... I had the same pronlem, well similiar, when none of the java web start apps would work..

 

[Netopia]

I just ran into this in the last month and am trying to remember exactly what the problem was, but it had something to do with the link as posted being BAD.

I think what I did was to (in a GUI) go to the " /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_08/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so" folder and manually (drag and drop) created a link to the destination directory "/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.2/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so" . There was something goofy like one letter being wrong in one part or the other or a directory name being slightly different so that it didn't actually point to the right thing.

Anyway, did it by dran and drop and it all works fine after that. Actually.... I'm going to finish this post in a minute. I'm going to SSH into my box and find out the EXACT paths involved and post it here (which is what I had originally thought to do when I first discovered the problem)

Ok...I'm not using the same version as you (I've got 1.5 I think) but it looks like what worked is putting the link in the MOZILLA plugins directory, not directly in the Firefox directory directly. Then my java worked fine. It's also continued to work as I upgrade to newer versions of FireFox.

Don't know if that will help you or not, but gives you something to try.

 

[wizard5233]

I had checked and rechecked the paths, unfortunately it doesn't fix it, perhaps it may be the problem with the versions.

 

[wizard5233]

I tried installing a different version of java, namely 1.5. This one causes even a worse problem, firefox won't even start up with this version of java.