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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!slugvine.demon.co.uk!slugvine.demon.co.uk!jas From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!? Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 22:46:11 GMT Organization: Home Message-ID: <E8E78z.Bx@slugvine.demon.co.uk> References: <3347D903.15FB7483@neomorphic.com> <gpierceE88nFx.368@netcom.com> <334A7907.167E@cs.ucc.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38837 comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:9574 In article <334A7907.167E@cs.ucc.ie>, lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie> wrote: >Me too! My Netscape 3.01 will not display on a FreeBSD 2.1.6 machine. >Netscape makes no attempt to download the applet, leaves a space where >it should be on the page and gives no error at all. Basically it behaves >exactly as if Java had been turned off. [snip...] >Does anyone know the cause of this problem, or better still the fix? There's a problem with fonts in the 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 (at least) releases of FreeBSD, which prevents Java applets from running as you have described. That is solved by running the following commands: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir Try this and see whether it fixes the problem. -- John Stark (at home), Cambridge, UK | mailto:jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555 | http://www.slugvine.demon.co.uk