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From: stevek@visix.com (Steve Kiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape and JAVA
Date: 2 Jul 1996 14:28:43 GMT
Organization: Visix Software, Inc.
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In article <4raoal$68b@emerald.silicon.net>,
	chris@Silicon.NET (Christopher Ellwood) writes:
>In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, Wayne Farmer wrote...
>>Olaf Manczak wrote:
>>> 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...
>>
>>I concur - I get this all the time as well.  Don't know either.
>>I can not get any java sites at www.gamelan.con to work either - and I
>>have moved/copied moz3?.zip to the correct place.
>
>I hate to say "me too", but I have been plagued by this problem as well.
>I have tried moving, copying, and unzipping the moz3?.zip file in every
>possible permutation, as well as tracing the execution of the netscape 
>navagator itself, but to no avail.  If anyone has found a solution to
>this problem, please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Chris

You need to recreate your fonts directories with mkfontdir.

mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts

(If I remember correctly.)

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Stephen J. Kiernan       | Oppinions expressed here are my own and do not
stevek@visix.com         |    necessarily represent those of my employer.
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