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From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford)
Subject: Re: Netscape 3 and java
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:14:08 GMT
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Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) wrote:
: John J. Rushford wrote:
: >
: > I've downloaded the BSDI netscape 3 and am trying to get it to run java
: > applets on my FreeBSD 2.1 machine and have not been sucessful. I've
: > put the moz3_0.zip file in every directory location that the README file
: > mentioned. I've also set XNLSPATH and XKEYSYMDB. I can't get it to run
: > any java applets. Has anyone else had any success?
: >
: > thanks
: > --
: > John J. Rushford
: > Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_
: > wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)
: Am running it under FreeBSD 2.0.5 after installing it EXACTLY as
: specified it the README doc and Java applets plus everything else run
: fine.
: Hanns
: --
: _____________________________________________________________________
: Hanns B. Wetzel (hbw@interbay.net.au) Hervey Bay Qeensland, Australia
: Tel (071) 25 2872___________________________________Fax (071) 28 1877
I've fixed the problem I was having with Netscape3. It was due a problem
in the X11R6 font database. My thanks to Sujal Patel smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu
for sending the following procedure to me. I'm posting this in case anyone
else runs into the same sort of problem.
If netscape is just leaveing a hole for the applet and not loading it the
following fix may help:
--Begin Included Message--
From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:20:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Netscape Java Fixed - For REAL!! :-)
Alright... This is the real thing (3 people have reported success with
this one). Apparently, XFree86 ships with an broken font database in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. There are certain fonts in the database
which don't exist in the directory, and apparently this is pissing off
some of our Xservers (it looks like , the Xserver sends a bad request
error to a Netscape thread that kills the Java applet).
Here is the fix (as root):
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
Then you'll need to restart your Xserver (or just run "xset fp rehash" as
the non-root user).
Sujal
--
John J. Rushford
Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_
wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)