Hardy Heron Jre (java) does not work with Firefox, Mozilla, Galeon

[tomaszko]

Binary package hint: sun-java6-jre

Dear All,

It seems that java applets could not be used under the Firefox/Mozilla/Galeon web-browsers

To reproduce this bug do the following steps:
1. Ugrade from Gutsy to Hardy
2. Install sun-java6-jre or sun-java5-jre plugin
3 install firefox2.0.0.11 or galeon
4. check plugin on this page http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
5. Java is not loaded

I think it's critical

Regrds,

Tom

[Jussi Saarinen (jms)]

I had sun-java6-jre_6-04-1 related problem too. Following seems to fix it, at least it did the trick for me:

sudo sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.04/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so

[tomaszko (kossut)]

it does the trick only for firefox 2.0.x. Galeon and ff3.0 is affected.
8.04 should be free from such bugs.

Regards,

tk

[boskicinek (boski-cinek)]

It doesn't work for me either. I get many error messages on stderr (see attachment).

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

firefox 2.0.0.10+2nobinonly-0ubuntu2
$ dpkg-query -l|grep java|grep ii
ii java-common 0.27ubuntu1 Base of all Java packages
ii sun-java6-bin 6-04-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (ar
ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (ar
ii sun-java6-plugin 6-04-1 The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6

[trevor_boon (trevor-boon)]

Hi also had this problem after upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy.

I already had the java packages installed and working prior to the upgrade.

Jussi Saarinen's solution worked for me.

[boskicinek (boski-cinek)]

Works for me too, but it still have to be fixed by default.

[psa (psasak-earthlink)]

There is a missing link in Firefox 3:

$ cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

then:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/firefox-3.0-javaplugin.so

restart Firefox 3.

[TDB (michael-baranov)]

No solution made my Firefox3 have java pluin working in it so far! Plz HELP!

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

I've gone through the usual combination of update alternatives, adding missing sym links, apt-get install / remove but some applets are still not starting correctly (most notably the e-trade streaming quotes applet!)

[tomaszko (kossut)]

solution from psa does not work for me, I think that by the end of march this bug will be patched

[russellc (russell-christopher)]

When I launch e-trade streaming quotes applet I get a blank page and system monitor shows a bunch of zombie vm's which go away when I exit ff

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

I purged all Java VMs and plugins and reinstalled Iced Tea. This is now working for the Sun Java Applet Test page. It is not working for the e-trade realtime quote streamer probably because of a problem with Iced Tea itself - this is the error log;

GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f070: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status load: class etrade.mcaster.Streamer not found.
load: class etrade.mcaster.Streamer not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: etrade.mcaster.Streamer
  PIPE: plugin read: status load: class etrade.mcaster.Streamer not found.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f070: plugin_in_pipe_callback return
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:201)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:145)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:644)
 at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:796)
 at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:725)
 at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:379)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:674)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class: sun.security.ssl.DefaultSSLContextImpl)
 at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.throwException(SSLSocketFactory.java:196)
 at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:216)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:383)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1020)
 at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:397)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:338)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassLoader.java:302)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClassLoader.java:62)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoader.java:191)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:188)
 ... 8 more
Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Error constructing implementation (algorithm: Default, provider: SunJSSE, class: sun.security.ssl.DefaultSSLContextImpl)
 at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Provider.java:1262)
 at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:236)
 at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:164)
 at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(SSLContext.java:142)
 at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(SSLContext.java:85)
 at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(SSLSocketFactory.java:119)
 at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(HttpsURLConnection.java:344)
 at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(HttpsURLConnection.java:302)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.<init>(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:85)
 at sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handl...

[Molotov (shroomz)]

I had to do both tricks, the one jms posted, and then psa's. Now it works fine. Try using both tricks, it should make your (Sun-) Java run. Good luck and sry for my bad english.