Going to the applets test page would make Java use 100% of one of the cores and would keep hang even after exiting firefox. Needles to say, the applets would fail to load. I noticed this:
Now the applets load just fine. Shouldn't the sun-java6-plugin package conflict with the icedtea6-plugin? Meaning that when you install dpkg would force you to uninstall the other?
I now have a new 64 bit machine , and a fresh install of Jaunty. I went ahead and installed the Sun Java6 packages:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
Going to the applets test page would make Java use 100% of one of the cores and would keep hang even after exiting firefox. Needles to say, the applets would fail to load. I noticed this:
cd /etc/alternatives/
ls -l |grep javap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 firefox- javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so 1.9-javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-openjdk/ jre/lib/ amd64/IcedTeaPl ugin.so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 iceape-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 iceweasel-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 midbrowser-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 mozilla-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 2009-07-09 19:51 xulrunner-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 xulrunner-
Clearly, icedtea6-plugin was on the way. Removing it fixed the issue:
lmilano@ grisell: alternatives$ ls -l |grep javap javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so 1.9-javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so javaplugin. so -> /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun/jre/ lib/amd64/ libnpjp2. so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 firefox-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 iceape-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 iceweasel-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 midbrowser-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 mozilla-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 20:04 xulrunner-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 2009-07-09 19:51 xulrunner-
Now the applets load just fine. Shouldn't the sun-java6-plugin package conflict with the icedtea6-plugin? Meaning that when you install dpkg would force you to uninstall the other?
Hope this helps ...