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From: lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!?
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 12:36:34 +0100
Organization: UCC Computer Science Dept.
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Thanks for the input, but the CLASSPATH doesn't seem to be the problem.
It can be ruled out when one considers that changing no env variables,
just which X server Netscape displays to, causes it to work ( or not ).
I did try putting java_301 into all the suggested directories anyway
but it didn't change a thing. Surely if the problem was not being
able to find java_301, Netscape would give an error!
Has anyone got some more suggestions? This problem is affecting about
100 FreeBSD machines in our department.
Thanks again.
John Szumowski wrote:
> Could it be, perhaps, that netscape is unable to find your java_301
> file? Check the readme. Mine is in /usr/local/netscape/java/classes/.
> The other might be ok, but this is something to check...
> HTH.
David Kulp wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> > <snip>
> >
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