On 2014-08-18, Toralf Lund <toralf.l...@pgs.com> wrote:
> On 17/08/14 20:04, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2014-08-17, Toralf Lund <toralf.l...@pgs.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After some recent upgrade or the other, the browser plugin for java no 
>>> longer works in my CentOS 6 x86_64 setup - using Firefox. Applets won't 
>>> load, and no java plugin is mentioned in "about:plugins". The "openjdk" 
>>> Java packages as well as icetea-web are installed, though, and everything 
>>> worked just fine a few weeks ago.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what may be wrong and/or how to 
>>> diagnose the problem? Should I expect error messages anywhere if the plugin 
>>> just won't load (can't see anything in the browser console)?
>>>
>>> Note that when I talk about upgrades, I mean that I generally install all 
>>> "notified" system updates.
>>>
>>> - Toralf
>>>
>> Does the file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so exist, and does
>> it link (indirectly) to /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so? You can check using
>> the following command:
>>
>>      readlink -e /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
> I forgot to tell, I checked all "obvious" things like that. And yes, the 
> file points where it should.
>
> - Toralf
>

All I can think of is to run 'rpm -V' on the packages which own the
above files, and also look for clues in ~/.xsession-errors and
/var/log/messages upon starting firefox. I'm sure if those suggestions
are obvious. :-)

--

Liam


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