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vis

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 81

Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

After an upgrade a couple of days ago, Java applets did not run on the browser. No error messages, no coffee cup, nothing, just a blank area.

Only later I noticed that not even a Hello World! applet run on Eclipse. At least it showed an error message, roughly "Locking assertion failure.  Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7cca767]"

Through a web-search found a random hack, which amounted to "sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g'  /opt/java/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so" which worked like magic. Just wanted to share the information, in case the problem still exists.

raroman

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 29

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

Thanks vis, working here too

Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

Whatever it does, it works.

domanov

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 45

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

This hack is still needed to run (for example) jabref with the new jre 6u5-1.

I suggest making this post sticky. I've lost couple of hours googling around in bbs to find out a solution.

domanov

raroman

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 29

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

My goodness, me too. Three months after my first post, I upgraded jre and forgot about this stupid patch thingy. Is still neccessary :-(

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

You might want to report it as a bug then... It's quite normal that this doesn't get fixed if you don't tell the devs about it.

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

this just confirms wat iphitus was talking about

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46887

try to contrib and report the bug

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Its a sick world we live in....

domanov

Member

From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 45

Re: Upgrade broke Java, temporary hack

After searching the flyspray for already opened jre bugs, I just filed the #10162 (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10162).
Is there any other way to propagate this simple fix (one sed command on one file) other than just provide a whole new jre package?

domanov