The icedtea plugin creates fifos at ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-appletviewer-to-plugin and ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-plugin-to-appletviewer. So if $HOME is in an AFS filesystem, which doesn’t support fifos, the plugin doesn’t work at all. For example, this makes the plugin unusable for MIT Athena machines.
The icedtea plugin creates fifos at ~/.icedteaplugi n/icedtea- appletviewer- to-plugin and ~/.icedteaplugi n/icedtea- plugin- to-appletviewer . So if $HOME is in an AFS filesystem, which doesn’t support fifos, the plugin doesn’t work at all. For example, this makes the plugin unusable for MIT Athena machines.