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| Summary: | java-1_6_0-sun-plugin crashes SeaMonkey | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 | Reporter: | Tristan Miller <psychonaut> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | E-mail List <bnc-team-screening> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Critical | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | kairo, wolfgang |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.1 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Tristan Miller
2009-05-21 16:38:12 UTC
I'm afraid that Seamonkey is not compatible with any of existing Java plugins :-( I've found a workaround for x86_64 - you have to use i586 Java and Seamonkey: 1.) Install a 32bit sun Java (unfortunatelly no 32bit compat packages are distributed with openSUSE) wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/rpm/i586/java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u13-0.1.1.i586.rpm wget http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/rpm/i586/java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u13-0.1.1.i586.rpm rpm -ivh --noscripts java-1_6_0-sun*.rpm 2.) Use Yast's Software manager to install a i586 version of Seamonkey (the tab Version) 3.) ln -sf /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins/javaplugin.so And Java will work. Unfortunately you will have a 32bit version of Seamonkey, so you must also install 32bit versions of all necessary plugins. The important notion here seems to be 64bit, as I also can confirm that on a 32bit system, at least SeaMonkey 2.x development versions work fine with Sun Java 1.6 (on the few places where I encounter Java on the web at all). SeaMonkey 1.1.x uses the exactly same code for integrating plugins and Java as Firefox 2.0 uses/used, SeaMonkey 2.0 development versions are using the same as Firefox 3.5 development versions, we are identical here, so any problems should affect both browsers equally. Yes, the issue is basically that there is _no_ Sun Java plugin for 64bit which works with any Mozilla before Gecko 1.9. The only solution to have Java with SeaMonkey 1.1.x is to use the 32bit versions of Java and seamonkey. (In reply to comment #3) > The important notion here seems to be 64bit, Yes, because the legacy plugin libjavaplugin_oji.so is available only on i586 installation. Plus i586 version of java-1_6_0-sun-plugin installs a plugin to /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins/, so this works well on 32bit systems. > as I also can confirm that on a > 32bit system, at least SeaMonkey 2.x development versions work fine with Sun > Java 1.6 (on the few places where I encounter Java on the web at all). Can you confirm that you uses a libjnp2.so and don't have a symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins, please? > SeaMonkey 1.1.x uses the exactly same code for integrating plugins and Java as > Firefox 2.0 uses/used, SeaMonkey 2.0 development versions are using the same as > Firefox 3.5 development versions, we are identical here, so any problems should > affect both browsers equally. That's true - the new Java plugin (which is the only one available on x86_64) is compatible only with Gecko 1.9 based browsers (Firefox 3 and Epiphany in 11.1). (In reply to comment #4) > The only solution to have Java with SeaMonkey 1.1.x is to use the 32bit > versions of Java and seamonkey. So I close this bug as WONTFIX again. Only one workaround for 64bit systems is to install a 32bit Seamonkey and Java - see comment#2. (In reply to comment #5) > Can you confirm that you uses a libjnp2.so and don't have a symlinked > libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins, please? Yes, I'm running libjnp2.so on my SeaMonkey 2.x development versions and it works fine. This is 32bit here, but should work fine on 64bit as well. I think Wolfgang has some SeaMonkey 2.0 alpha/beta/nightly in the Mozilla OBS repo, feel free to try that (you can guess that as project leader I'll be very very happy when we come to finally release that 2.0 version). JFI: I wrote a small howto about it http://en.opensuse.org/Java/How_To_use_Java_with_Seamonkey_on_64-bit |