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From: ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu (Ivan Lima)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with Java / Netscape 30b4 -- URGENT
Date: 12 Jun 1996 18:15:51 GMT
Organization: RSMAS/University of Miami
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Walter 'madhouse' Hafner (hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
: Hello!
: Today's June, 11. If I don't get a reply today you may aswell skip this
: mail ... :-((
: I installed Netscape 30b4 with the port for -current on a fairly vanilla
: 2.1R system:
: It went through without problems. It created the /usr/local/bin/netscape
: script and moved the binary to /usr/local/bin/netscape.bin. It created
: /usr/local/lib/netscape aswell and copied all necessary files to it.
: I tried it and Netscape runs well with ONE exception: It doesn't execute
: Java-applets. The error message is "couldn't create AppletClassLoader
: for JavaScript"
: The configuration is ok: I use the same preferences-file with 30b4 on a
: Sparc unter SunOS 4.1.3.
: I tried the "mkfontdir" hint without success and commented out the
: CLASSDIR variable - also without success. I didn't get the classes.zip
: file, though.
: Any further hints? It's realy URGENT: Thursday morning, my computer
: stands on a local exhibition as an Internet-surf-terminal ...
: Thanks,
: -Walter
: --
: Walter Hafner____________________________ hafner@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de
: FORWISS Muenchen, FG Kognitive Systeme, Raum O-134, Tel: 089/48095-220
: Netscape*documentColorsHavePriority: false
: Netscape*blinkingEnabled: false
: <A href=http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~hafner/>*CLICK*</A>
I had exactly the same problem. Type this as root and the problem will
be gone:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chmod 444 fonts.dir
And then exit and restart your X server. Hope you got this before the
exhibition.
Cheers,
Ivan
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