java plugin & firefox crash

[Greg Lewis]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:22:59PM +0100, John Wright wrote:
> Java is crashing firefox for me and I'm wondering if someone can
> please help?  Running firefox from Konsole shows this error for the
> crash:
> 
> diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_10
> jdk-1.6.0.3p4_1
> javavmwrapper-2.3.2
> firefox-2.0.0.14,1
> 
> jello# uname -a
> FreeBSD jello.hwresnet.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24
> 19:59:52 UTC 2008     root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> jello# java -version
> java version "1.5.0"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build diablo-1.5.0-b01)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build diablo-1.5.0_07-b01, mixed mode)
> 
> Any help will definitely be appreciated.

I bet the Diablo plugin is installed too.  This won't work.  You can't mix
7.x binaries (firefox) with 6.x shared libraries (Diablo).  You need to
deinstall Diablo and somehow get jdk16's plugin to (re)install, or just
create a symlink yourself.

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