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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!newsfeeder.gi.net!news.dra.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!super.zippo.com!zdc!news1.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!gpierce From: gpierce@netcom.com (Greg Pierce) Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!? Message-ID: <gpierceE8nH2z.5LB@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Organization: Netcom On-Line Services X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3347D903.15FB7483@neomorphic.com> <334B7F42.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5ig642$k22@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <334BB74F.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> <5igpdu$89r$1@jmurray.campus.vt.edu> <334D0365.41C6@cs.ucc.ie> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:56:59 GMT Lines: 49 Sender: gpierce@netcom3.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39126 comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:9657 the fonts directory solution fixed it for me too. thanks to everyone. lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote: : Thanks. : Rebuilding the font directory has, at last, fixed the problem. : Thanks to everyone who helped. : Now I'm just left with mundane task of fixing each of the 84 : FreeBSD machines we have. 8-) : John Murray wrote: : > : > In article <334BB74F.41C6@cs.ucc.ie>, lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie> wrote: : > >By "use the port" I presume you mean the FreeBSD port of Netscape? : > > : > >Well yes I am using the FreeBSD ver, along with the OSF ver. Both : > >will display fine to the X server on the OSF Alpha but niether will : > >display applets on FreeBSD's X. : > > : > >Thanks anyway. : > > : > : > Have you tried the advice, the port gives you: : > : > Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root: : > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc : > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir : > chmod 444 fonts.dir : > And then exit and restart your X server. : > : > This sounds like it would fix it, as any X verison won't display applets : > if the fonts.dir is not correct. These commands rebulid the fonts.dir : > so that it is correct. : > : > -- : > John Murray -=- jmurray@vt.edu johns@tmbg.org -=- http://acm.vt.edu/~jmurray : > The Unofficial Pritchard Home Page ->http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~murray/pritchard : -- : -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- : lumpy@cs.ucc.ie http://interzone.ucc.ie/lumpy : Reason 71 why Kirk is better then Picard: : When Picard was 37, he was only Captain of the : lowly freighter, Stargazer. When Kirk was 37, : he was Captain of the flagship Enterprise.