Java Plugin not working on Firefox

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:31:21 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:58:14 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman"
> > <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I have jdk1.6 (bootstrapped from diablo 1.5) installed and it
> >> works fine for command line/swing apps but dies on applets in
> >> firefox 2.0.0.11 (both from ports).   I installed the plugin by
> >> doing:
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> > Hi Aryeh, (no need to cross post...)
> >
> > have you tried this ?
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2007-November/006927.html
> >
> But netbeans has stopped working now:
> 
> java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address
>     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
>     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:359)
>     at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:319)
>     at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:185)
>     at org.netbeans.CLIHandler$Server.<init>(CLIHandler.java:964)
>     at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:523)
>     at org.netbeans.CLIHandler.initialize(CLIHandler.java:346)
>     at org.netbeans.MainImpl.execute(MainImpl.java:180)
>     at org.netbeans.MainImpl.main(MainImpl.java:75)
>     at org.netbeans.Main.main(Main.java:75)
> XIO:  fatal IO error 0 (Unknown error: 0) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
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have you tried not having the variables defined in the environment netbeans is launched from ?

( I tried it here too - i got the error too, but netbeans seemed to keep loading, till my whole machine crashed pretty badly..need to see if it's related to using JDK16 or other stuff...but cant test now)

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