[CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund <Toralf.Lund at 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

-- 

Liam