Re: Problems with java

[Thomas Rösch <thomas@sdg.de>]

Hello
> it seems, there is a big problem wioth java at the momement. Neither openjdk, 
> nor sun-java6, nor gcj is possible to get access to the internet. I discovered 
> this on some website, and with a java based application (tvbrowser). I tried 
> update-alternatives --config java to switch between the different java 
> versions., but only GIJ was working with the internet. 


> This behaviour appears only on 54-bit systems, on 32-bit systems everything is 
> working well.
64 ;-)

It is a modification in Sid:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560238

Workaround:

/etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf

-> net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0

See also Thread "Java Anwendungen - keine Netzwerk/Internetverbindung 
mehr" in the german debuan-users list.

Tom