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mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 113

SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

Secondlife was running quite well on my AMD Phenom + 8800GT system. Installed the latest Arch updates, now Secondlife will not start at all. Viewing the logs, it looks like OpenJDK may be the cause. SL is accessing the IcedTea java plugin instead of Sun Java. It may be that OpenJDK is not compatible with whatever the heck SL wants with my browser plugin. I could be wrong; dont really know.

To test my theory, I wanted to remove OpenJDK and install JRE. OpenJDK will not uninstall because of Soprano. I can't uninstall Soprano because Amarok and other KDE functions depend on it.

Is there any way to change the browser plugin to JRE without breaking Soprano?

Last edited by mooreted (2009-02-14 17:31:37)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

pacman -Rd will help you. More generally, man pacman will help you.

mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

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Re: SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

Oh, thats what no-deps does. Nice. Thanks

Let's see if that fixes or breaks things.

mooreted

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Registered: 2009-01-01

Posts: 113

Re: SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

That worked. SL is now running. Amarok still shows metadata on my music files. Don't know if KDE is going to complain somewhere down the like. We'll just have to wait and see.

Thanks for the help.

tomk

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Re: SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

If you want to take this a bit further: both openjdk6 and jre provide the virtual package java-runtime, so you could submit a feature request asking the soprano maintainer to specify java-runtime as a dependency, instead of openjdk6. He may, of course, have other reasons for putting openjdk6 in there, but there's no harm in asking.

Pierre

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Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: SOLVED: Posible OpenJDK broke Second Life - Cannot remove OpenJDK

@tomk: Its not that easy as openjdk and jre are not compatible atm: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13071

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