Hi,
After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all "notified" system updates.
- Toralf
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On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund Toralf.Lund@pgs.com wrote:
Hi,
After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all "notified" system updates.
- Toralf
Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using the following command:
readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund Toralf.Lund@pgs.com wrote:
Hi,
After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all "notified" system updates.
- Toralf
Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using the following command:
readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
I forgot to tell, I checked all "obvious" things like that. And yes, the file points where it should.
- Toralf
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On Mon, August 18, 2014 5:50 am, Toralf Lund wrote:
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I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like this one always offends my intelligence. As a recipient of e-mail I didn't give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be obliged to anything you request.
Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer).
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 08/18/2014 06:05 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like this one always offends my intelligence. As a recipient of e-mail I didn't give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be obliged to anything you request.
Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer).
+1
On 18/08/14 15:05, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, August 18, 2014 5:50 am, Toralf Lund wrote:
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I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like this one always offends my intelligence.
Well, maybe I get slightly offended by the fact that you direct this comment at me and/or the list. As if I had anything to do with it being added...
- T
As a recipient of e-mail I didn't give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be obliged to anything you request.
Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer).
Valeri
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On Tue, August 19, 2014 6:59 am, Toralf Lund wrote:
On 18/08/14 15:05, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Mon, August 18, 2014 5:50 am, Toralf Lund wrote:
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I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like this one always offends my intelligence.
Well, maybe I get slightly offended by the fact that you direct this comment at me and/or the list. As if I had anything to do with it being added...
It is your email that has that footer. If you didn't know your e-mail has that footer, you have been told. If you didn't know an idiocy of your e-mail footer offends other people, now you should know it too. If you disagree with the fact that part your e-mail offends people the least you can do is to stop using that server/service.
If I missed something or made any mistake, I'm sure others will add/correct me.
Valeri
- T
As a recipient of e-mail I didn't give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be obliged to anything you request.
Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer).
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 2014-08-18, Toralf Lund toralf.lund@pgs.com wrote:
On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund Toralf.Lund@pgs.com wrote:
Hi,
After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all "notified" system updates.
- Toralf
Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using the following command:
readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
I forgot to tell, I checked all "obvious" things like that. And yes, the file points where it should.
- Toralf
All I can think of is to run 'rpm -V' on the packages which own the above files, and also look for clues in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/messages upon starting firefox. I'm sure if those suggestions are obvious. :-)
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Liam
On 19/08/14 14:57, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2014-08-18, Toralf Lund toralf.lund@pgs.com wrote:
On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund Toralf.Lund@pgs.com wrote:
Hi,
After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything worked just fine a few weeks ago.
Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all "notified" system updates.
- Toralf
Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using the following command:
readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
I forgot to tell, I checked all "obvious" things like that. And yes, the file points where it should.
- Toralf
All I can think of is to run 'rpm -V' on the packages which own the above files, and also look for clues in ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/messages upon starting firefox. I'm sure if those suggestions are obvious. :-)
Well, I guess the "obvious" was mainly verifying that the file was actually there :-)
The log files you mention didn't offer a clue about what was going on, but another file did - pluginreg.dat in the profile directory. It actually had
[INVALID] /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so:$ 1385126043000:$
I then remove the file and restarted, and now everything is back on track :-)
I now remember doing this for other plugins in the past, but I'd quite forgotten that there even was such a file until I was reminded by a web search...
Another question is why the plugin was considered "invalid" in the first place, of course. Maybe I'll never find out...
- Toralf
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