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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!alisa.org!wjjr From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford) Subject: Re: Netscape and JAVA X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: My place on the Front Range. Message-ID: <Dtsp2q.2IC@alisa.org> References: <31D57FBD.41C6@zow.desy.de> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 04:13:38 GMT Lines: 44 Olaf Manczak (Olaf.Manczak@zow.desy.de) wrote: : Dear All, : I have a strange problem: I am running netscape (3.0b5 but it happens : with 2.02 as well) on a FreeBSD 2.1.0 machine and whenever a Java : applet is being loaded an error message(s) : couldn't create AppletClassLoader for JavaScript : pop out and Java applet doesn't work. : However if I just set DISPLAY to an old crappy DEC Station screen : everything works fine... : May be somebody knows what's the reason/solution ? : Cheers, : -- Olavi I had a problem a few months back with java applets and netscape. The following solved my problem: > 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 regards -- John J. Rushford Westminster, Colorado___/\_/\_ wjjr@alisa.org (alisa.org is powered by FreeBSD)