javaws problems

Stephen Hepner shepner at asyla.org
Mon Apr 16 16:43:32 UTC 2007


To answer my own post, I have been told that all is good if you have 
jdk-6u1-linux-i586.bin extracted out and the java_dri port installed.  
It seems good from the little that Ive been able to test sofar

stephen
Stephen Hepner wrote:
> hello, Im hoping that someone can give me some suggestions here....  I 
> have been trying to play a javaws based game 
> (http://www.wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp) which is having 
> some problems.  Im running FreeBSD i386 6.2-STABLE, have the nVidia 
> drivers and OpenGL installed.  It of course works fine under Windows 
> and is supposed to work under linux too.
>
> So...with the native FreeBSD java I can get the login screen but it 
> dies when I try to login.  I have been told that it needs something 
> that is in the linux-sun-jdk1.5.0 version of java that isnt in the 
> FreeBSD native version.  However when I try to run the 
> linux-sun-jdk1.5.0 version of javaws I get a "JAVAWS_HOME not set" error.
>
> To fix the problem Ive tried, among other things, to setting the 
> JAVAWS_HOME variable in my shell.  Ive also been tinkering with the 
> /usr/local/bin/javaws script that came from the javavmwrapper port.  
> It seems to set all of the other env vars but that one and my attempts 
> to modify it havnt gone so well sofar
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this working?
> thanks!
> stephen
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