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From: Ronald Wahl <rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Fix for Netscape v3.0x java / appletclassloader problem
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:38:02 +0200
Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG
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On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, craig horman wrote:
>
> > After fiddling with the now-familiar `couldn't create AppletClassLoader'
> > error issued by Netscape 3.0b* for too many hours (an strace'd Netscape
> > is not a pretty thing to watch), I think I've found a solution to
> > the problem. At least, I was able to cure it on two Linux boxes.
> > [...]
>
> I have not the AppletClassLoader problem, but I get bus errors when I try to
>
> * execute Java-Applets
> * edit the source
> * start netscape with no .netscape directory present
>
> I fiddled with the fonts.dir and fonts.alias but this has no effect. The
> bus errors still occure (3.0b4, 3.0b5, 3.0b5a) and I have to stay with
> 3.0b3 (expires on July 31 :-( ).
Now I found the solution to at least the problems I described:
You need libXpm.so.4.6 and libc.so.5.0.9. Newer releases seems to trigger
the bus errors. To force netscape to use these libraries I recommend the
following steps:
* Create a directory and copy all netscape specific libraries (i.e.
libXpm.so.4.6 and libc.so.5.0.9 to this directory
* Change to this directory and call "ldconfig -n ." to generate the
links.
* Start netscape via the following script
-------------------
#!/bin/sh
NS_EXE=<full path of the netscape executable>
NS_LIBS=<directory with netscape specific libraries>
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$NS_LIBS:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib exec $NS_EXE $*
-------------------
hope it helps,
ron
P.S. If there is somebody who gets the libtextplugin from the SDK working
please drop me a note how to get it working.
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