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From: gpierce@netcom.com (Greg Pierce)
Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!?
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the fonts directory solution fixed it for me too.  thanks to everyone.


lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote:
: Thanks.

: Rebuilding the font directory has, at last, fixed the problem.
: Thanks to everyone who helped.

: Now I'm just left with mundane task of fixing each of the 84
: FreeBSD machines we have. 8-)


: John Murray wrote:
: > 
: > In article <334BB74F.41C6@cs.ucc.ie>, lumpy  <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:
: > >By "use the port" I presume you mean the FreeBSD port of Netscape?
: > >
: > >Well yes I am using the FreeBSD ver, along with the OSF ver.  Both
: > >will display fine to the X server on the OSF Alpha but niether will
: > >display applets on FreeBSD's X.
: > >
: > >Thanks anyway.
: > >
: > 
: > Have you tried the advice, the port gives you:
: > 
: > Note: If Java applets fail to display.  Type this as root:
: >                 cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
: >                 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
: >                 chmod 444 fonts.dir
: >       And then exit and restart your X server.
: > 
: > This sounds like it would fix it, as any X verison won't display applets
: > if the fonts.dir is not correct.  These commands rebulid the fonts.dir
: > so that it is correct.
: > 
: > --
: > John Murray -=- jmurray@vt.edu johns@tmbg.org -=- http://acm.vt.edu/~jmurray
: > The Unofficial Pritchard Home Page ->http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~murray/pritchard

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