Re: Java not working in Galeon/Mozilla

[Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net>]

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 02:35, dman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +0000, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> | Hi all, 
> | 
> | If I visit www.icq.com/icqwebbie I am prompted to download a vm.  If I
> | do so as a user, the installation fails.  If I do so as root,
> | installation succeeds but when I go back to the page, it still prompts
> | me to download the vm all over again. 
> | 
> | What do I need to do to get this working?  Is there an alternative to
> | this wizard which doesn't work? 
> 
> Do 3 things :
>     1)  add
>             deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ woody non-free
>         to your sources.list and update
> 
>     2)  apt-get install j2sdk1.3
> 
>     3)  quit, then restart galeon
> 
> The key parts of the package are 
> 
> /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so
> 

Hmmm.

thanks.  But now mozilla and gasleon both crash on loading the applet. 
when this happens as root, its annoying.  But when I am logged on as
myself, it brings down the whole x-session.

I wonder where I could find  alog of what is causing this?

Patrick