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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!129.33.24.22!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!usenet From: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 16:52:29 -0700 Organization: Neomorphic Software, Inc. Lines: 75 Message-ID: <334ADA3D.446B9B3D@neomorphic.com> References: <3347D903.15FB7483@neomorphic.com> <gpierceE88nFx.368@netcom.com> <334A7907.167E@cs.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.107.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38755 comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:9550 I discovered that my problem (and probably yours and Greg's) is a poorly advertised "bug": CLASSPATH should not be set, or if it is, it must include java_301 first in its path before classes.zip. I had installed kaffe and then changed my CLASSPATH to accomodate it. Unbeknownst to me, and not advertised in the navigator README, is the fact that navigator's java vm uses CLASSPATH if it exists and then defaults to those dirs listed in the README, if no CLASSPATH. I hope that solves your problem, as it did mine. Thanks to those folks who emailed me this solution. regards, -david. lumpy wrote: > > Me too! My Netscape 3.01 will not display on a FreeBSD 2.1.6 machine. > Netscape makes no attempt to download the applet, leaves a space where > it should be on the page and gives no error at all. Basically it behaves > exactly as if Java had been turned off. > > It works fine with different X servers ( I checked ) - just not > FreeBSD's. Neither is it exclusive to the FreeBSD version of Netscape, > other versions ( I tried the OSF ver ) also exhibit the problem when > displaying to a FreeBSD machine. I also found that Netscape 2.02 > displays applets fine to the same X server. The problem seems only to > show when Netscape 3.01 and FreeBSD's X are combined. ( For the record, > I'm using FreeBSD 2.1.6 ) > > I made a exhaustive search on the web for a mention of this problem, but > came up dry. It surprises me that such a bug would go un-noticed. > Perhaps it is exclusive to particular configurations of FreeBSD? > > Does anyone know the cause of this problem, or better still the fix? > > Greg Pierce wrote: > > > > I have the exact same problem. Thought it was just me. Guess not. > > I have one additional weirdness though, which is even if I telnet > > to another box, say a solaris box, then run its netscape over X > > to my FreeBSD box, the java stuff doesn't work! it exibits the > > same symptoms as if I were running the local BSD copy. very > > weird. > > > > David Kulp (dkulp@neomorphic.com) wrote: > > : Dear fellow BSD-ers or Unix Netscape Navigator users, > > > > : Since upgrading to FreeBSD 2.2.1, netscape navigator no longer > > : will run any Java applets. This may be coincidental to the OS > > : upgrade. I also installed the linux navigator running in emulation > > : mode, and this, too, simply ignores any java applet code -- or so it > > : seems. > > > > : The java console never displays. My Options/Network Prefs.../Languages > > : is set to run Java. /usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301 exists, > > : has been re-installed from the distribution, and has a+r perms. > > : No proxies are in use. No classes are ever downloaded, according to > > : the message bar. > > > > : I'm at a loss to explain what could be causing this problem, but > > : it's vital to my work that I'm able to run java. > > > > : I'd appreciate any and all suggestions on what may be the problem! > > > > : Very much obliged, > > : -david kulp. > > : dkulp@neomorphic.com > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > lumpy@cs.ucc.ie http://interzone.ucc.ie/lumpy > > Reason 69 why Kirk is better then Picard: > One Word: Iman.