Java problems on Opensuse 11.1

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#1

Hello out there,

I’m newbie, and I’ve successfully installed opensuse and gotten just about everything working very nicely. It’s been several days now that I haven’t used Windows, and it feels good.

The one last big problem that I’m experiencing is with Java. When I get to a page with a java applet, Konqueror does nothing, and Firefox crashes. Updating from Java 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 through yast didn’t help.

If I run Firefox from a terminal, this is what it spits out during the crash:

java version "1.6.0_0"                                                            
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (suse-0.1.3-i386)                      
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)                                    
Calling plugin_get_documentbase                                                   
Calling plugin_get_documentbase                                                   
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to handle message: GetJavaObject for instance 1 Thread[Thread-3,5,main]
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:533)                       
        at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.handleMessage(PluginStreamHandler.java:295)                     
        at sun.applet.PluginMessageHandlerWorker.run(PluginMessageHandlerWorker.java:72)                  
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException                                                                 
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:592)                       
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:525)                                                      
        ... 2 more                                                                                                                       
java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to handle message: GetJavaObject for instance 1 Thread[Thread-5,5,main]                               
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:533)                                                      
        at sun.applet.PluginStreamHandler.handleMessage(PluginStreamHandler.java:295)                                                    
        at sun.applet.PluginMessageHandlerWorker.run(PluginMessageHandlerWorker.java:72)                                                 
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException                                                                                                
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:592)                                                      
        at sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer.handleMessage(PluginAppletViewer.java:525)                                                      
        ... 2 more                                                                                                                       
Error: Unable to fetch applet instance id from Java side.                                                                                
Error: Unable to fetch applet instance id from Java side.                                                                                
IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:635: thread 0xb7913a30: Error: Unknown plugin value requested.                                                        
/usr/bin/firefox: line 128:  3946 Segmentation fault      $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@"

I’m running Firefox 3.5.3 on top of KDE 4.3.1 and Opensuse 11.1. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Daniel

#2

dmorgan4 wrote:

> I’m newbie, and I’ve successfully installed opensuse and gotten just
> about everything working very nicely. It’s been several days now that I
> haven’t used Windows, and it feels good.
>
> The one last big problem that I’m experiencing is with Java. When I
> get to a page with a java applet, Konqueror does nothing, and Firefox
> crashes. Updating from Java 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 through yast didn’t help.
>
> If I run Firefox from a terminal, this is what it spits out during the
> crash:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> java version “1.6.0_0”
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (suse-0.1.3-i386)

It seems you are using IcedTea Java. Better try with “Sun’s Java” which is
far better.

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

#3

Bravo! The Sun java plugin works great.

#4

Hi

I was just wondering how you could get Icedtea6 rpm. I am searching this for the open suse platform, but i could never get it. I appreciate if you can tell me how you got it.

Balaji.