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From: wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford)
Subject: Re: Netscape and JAVA
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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:22:48 GMT
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Steve Kiernan (stevek@visix.com) wrote:
: 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.)
Correct! I used the following procedure to fix this problem:
In article <DqwsAA.IxF@alisa.org> you write:
>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?
>
If netscape is just leaveing a hole for the applet and not loading it the
following fix may help:
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
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