Re: Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java

[Kristian Niemi <rance@mbnet.fi>]

There's been some writing about similar problems earlier in this 
newsgroup. Search it?

In short; I had the same problem, caused by the same thing 
(libjavaplugin). I had downloaded the java from Sun's pages. Problem 
solved when I, instead, apt-got the java-package from the following source:

# Blackdown Java 1.4.1-01, gcc3.2-compiled i386 release.
deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./
deb-src http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./

..And linked the plugin to firebird-plugins.

After that, it worked.
(The page http://www.telegraph.co.uk works for me. Didn't login though.)


h: Kristian

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I've been using java  (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on
> mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a
> particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became
> impossible to run firebird at all. I reinstalled it; no luck. I
> therefore fetched the tarball and unpacked that in /usr/local. 
> After much messing about I found that the basic problem was the link to
> the java library libjavaplugin.oji.so.
>
> I therefore fetched the most recent version of java (03) and tried that,
> but the results were the same. If there is a link to either the ns610 or
> the ns610-gcc32 version of the library, firebird refuses to run.
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar? I can't understand why the problem has
> appeared suddenly, since I had not altered either firebird or java.
>
> A.