Thanks, Charles. I installed java 1.3.1 using directions that you gave me in march. That pop-ip installer never worked for me. Charles R. Anderson wrote:
After installation, do this (as root):
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins rm libjavaplugin_oji.so
I had to put that one back into the plugin directory to get it to work. This is all under my home directory, in .mozilla/plugins and not where I installed mozilla.
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
OR
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
OK, I found two different places where the ns600 folder is. There's plugins/java2/i386/ns600/, and also plugins/plugin/i386/ns600. I made the sym link to the first one. Does it sound like I installed twice, from two different places?
I would also try setting this environment variable before starting Mozilla:
bash$ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
OR
tcsh> setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.2.5
I didn't do that. What will it do, and should I know how to un-do it?
Then type mozilla in the same terminal window where you typed the export or setenv command:
bash$ mozilla
Oh, that reminds me of another problem. When I installed Mozilla 0.9.9, I didn't uninstall the older version. The old one still comes up when I select Mozilla from the SuSE menu. I put an alias in /etc/profile.local to call the new version up from command line. How involved is it to wipe out the old version and get the menu to point to the new one? I'm in fvwm2, so I suspect that messing with the menus is another subject entirely. I tried that before and had no luck.
More info is available about this problem at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84093
I looked at the bug report, and if I understand it correctly, they're talking about a consistent problem. Most of the time, I have no trouble with java. I tested it, and it does work after intalling 1.3.1. I'll have to go for awhile and see if it happens again. Thank you all for your help. Greg