RE: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze

[James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Morgan [mailto:halbtaxabo-deb@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 22 March, 2010 09:02
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze
> 
> I've tried to run the Sun Java plugin in both Iceweasel and 
> Firefox on Squeeze without any success. The error I get from 
> the Sun test page
> http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1
> in the Java console is as follows. Does anybody know how to 
> fix this? or what is wrong? some incompatible library, maybe??
> 
> 
> Java Plug-in 1.6.0_16
> Using JRE version 1.6.0_16-b01 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
> User home directory = /home/nick
> ----------------------------------------------------
(snip)
> Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Network is unreachable
>     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
>     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)

I think you might be seeing this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560044


This same bug broke the Java applets on my Procurve switches too.  Using the fix in the initial bug report fixed it for me.

James