Java plugin stopped working. [SOLVED]

Steve zephod at cfl.rr.com
Thu Nov 6 15:30:11 UTC 2008


---- Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> wrote: 
> * Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> [2008-11-06 09:03]:
> > I did some experiments and I was able to reproduce the same problem if
> > I only installed:
> > java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.18.b09.fc9.i386
> > java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.18.b09.fc9.x86_64
> > 
> > ie don't install the x86_64 package of openjdk. If I only install the
> > x86_64 package and not the i386 package, the java plugin still works.
> 
> The OpenJDK packages aren't multi-lib compatible.

So that means that the x86_64 and i386 packages shouldn't be installed at the same time? ;-D

If these packages are not meant to be installed at the same time, then perhaps it would be a good idea to have the package dependecies set up to prevent this by default. Is there a situation when you would want them both installed?

Steve

> Andrew




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