java web start broken

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 19:59, John Wendel wrote:
> I just installed the latest JDK from Sun using rpms built with the 
> jpackage spec file. The install seemed to work properly and everything 
> that I've tried works, except java web start.
> 
> strace shows the error, javaws looping on
> 
> waitid(P_PID, 3163, 0xbff85180, 0, NULL) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> This is the same bug that was in 1.4.2.crap. bug.sun.com shows that 
> it's fixed in 5.2 (where's that?).
> 
> If anyone has a fix to share (that doesn't involve a preload .so), I'd 
> appreciate it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John

The 1.5.0_3 version has been working for me under FC3 for some time.  I
loaded the package directly from Sun.  You might try that.