Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 30 September 2011 09:30:35 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> At the moment, the icedtea-plugin package has a little problem (see its
> bugs #642734 and #642598). A workaround is to modify the file
> /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy :
>
> In this file replace:
> ------
> grant codeBase "file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/ext/*" {
>         permission java.security.AllPermission;
> };
> grant codeBase "file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-common/ext/*" {
>         permission java.security.AllPermission;
> };
> ------
> by this policy:
> ------
> grant codeBase "file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/*" {
>         permission java.security.AllPermission;
> };
> grant codeBase "file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-common/jre/lib/ext/*" {
>         permission java.security.AllPermission;
> };
> ------
>
> For me (with openjdk-6-jre), it works with the "official" test page
> http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml .
> --
> Best regards,
> Jörg-Volker.

Thank you for this.  I appreciate the help.

In the end I tried it before scrapping everything and starting again with 
Trinity.  It didn't work, but by then I had tried so many different things 
that I think that my poor installation was tied in knots and didn't know 
whether it was coming or going.

Lisi