I only started seeing this recently (but on multiple architectures and
systems). On a clean Sid install, I get the error as in message #5; if
I manually created ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-plugin-to-appletviewer as a
link to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/pluginappletviewer, I get
the error as in message #15. I also get pipes appearing in
~/.gcjwebplugin to the pluginappletviewer either way.
However, a fix is this: when I uninstall this package and install
icedtea6-plugin instead, everything works (or at least the couple of
sites I tried that had previously been crashing and locking up
iceweasel, such as the link in #5 and www.emolecules.com). Using this
plugin, I get pipes to the appletviewer here instead of in
.gcjwebplugin. This suggests to me that the problem is not necessarily
in this package, but could instead be in java-gcj. The timing of the
update to 1.0.80-1 I did on my existing Squeeze systems (as opposed to
the clean install) approximately coincides with when the problem started
occurring. However, this is speculation on my part, since I haven't
worked out the exact relationships amongst all the java packages.
Regardless of where exactly the problem lies, for now I'm just using the
alternate plugin package. I don't really know why I was using
icedtea-gcjwebplugin instead of icedtea6-plugin in the first place,
except that the former was available a few months sooner and I probably
just adopted the first one to be packaged.
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