Java (jdk1.5) woes with firefox (1.0.6) and opera (8.5)

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:08:22AM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Mike Hunter wrote:
> >After learning a bit about freebsd package management, I figured out how to
> >upgrade to the latest Xorg (and make sure I'm actually using it :) ):
> >
> >xdpyinfo | grep -i ersi 
> >version number:    11.0
> >X.Org version: 6.8.2
> >
> >But I'm still plagued with the same crash.  Is there any chance that the
> >java vm is using an old libawt or something like that?
> >
> >Thanks for all the help so far and I appreciate whatever else anybody has
> >to offer :)
> 
> You might want to try rebuilding the jdk with the recent patches on 
> freebsd-java to use the XToolkit AWT implementation instead of the 
> MToolkit one. Since the crash you originally mentioned involves libmawt, 
> that seems like a reasonable thing to do.
> 
> On second thought, you don't even need to rebuild jdk15. Just do as 
> instructed here:
> 
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/awt/1.5/xawt.html

That was going to be my next suggestion :).  As Panagiotis said, just
read that page and look at the environment variables you need to set
to try the XToolkit with an applet.  Hopefully that helps, since I'm fast
running out of ideas!

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