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Eric M. Hopper

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Dec 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/28/98
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No matter how carefully I set up my CLASSPATH environment
variable, Communicator 4.08 for UW 7 always complains about not being
able to find java40.jar. It lists the value of CLASSPATH in the
message, and often (depending on how I've set things up it contains
java40.jar and/or a path to a directory that contains java40.jar.

What's wrong?

Thanks,
--
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everything.
Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never
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Jim Roberts

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Dec 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/28/98
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Eric,

I've seen this in Linux as well on various releases of Netscape.
I have fixed it by using the entire path and file name in the
CLASSPATH environment variable.

Jim


"Eric M. Hopper" <hop...@omnifarious.mn.org> writes:
> No matter how carefully I set up my CLASSPATH environment
> variable, Communicator 4.08 for UW 7 always complains about not being
> able to find java40.jar. It lists the value of CLASSPATH in the
> message, and often (depending on how I've set things up it contains
> java40.jar and/or a path to a directory that contains java40.jar.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Thanks,

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Phil Eschallier

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Dec 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/29/98
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Eric;

I saw this and tracked it down to the permissions on the java40.jar
file ... no read for anyone but root. I fixed this by cd'ing to that
directory (/opt/netscape/java/classes) and performing a 'chmod go+r *'
... which seems to do the trick.

No comment on the QA from SCO.

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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric M Hopper <hop...@omnifarious.mn.org> writes:

> No matter how carefully I set up my CLASSPATH environment
> variable, Communicator 4.08 for UW 7 always complains about not being
> able to find java40.jar. It lists the value of CLASSPATH in the
> message, and often (depending on how I've set things up it contains
> java40.jar and/or a path to a directory that contains java40.jar.

> What's wrong?

> Thanks,
> --

Eric M. Hopper

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Dec 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/29/98
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Phil Eschallier wrote:
>
> Eric;
>
> I saw this and tracked it down to the permissions on the java40.jar
> file ... no read for anyone but root. I fixed this by cd'ing to that
> directory (/opt/netscape/java/classes) and performing a 'chmod go+r *'
> ... which seems to do the trick.
>
> No comment on the QA from SCO.

Thank you. This was precisely my problem. I feel a little
silly for not having seen it myself, but then the error message from
Communicator was very misleading. *sigh* One thinks that the existence
of errno has somehow escaped them.

The fact I had this problem may be related to the fact that I
had an earlier Communicator installed previous to this installation as I
much prefer its interface to Navigator's. I did remove the
installation,
but I never trust software like that to do exactly what it's supposed
to. I suppose some vestige may have remained which screwed up
subsequent installations.

Of course, now I have the problem of my communicator process
sort of randomly crashing when running Java stuff, but that's better
than having it not run at all I suppose. I think my crashes are related
to Java threads. Does the 7.0.1 update fix anything that might resolve
this problem?

At least Java 1.1 sort of works now.

Jean-Pierre Radley

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Dec 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/30/98
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Phil Eschallier averred (on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:19:59PM -0500):

|
| I saw this and tracked it down to the permissions on the java40.jar
| file ... no read for anyone but root. I fixed this by cd'ing to that
| directory (/opt/netscape/java/classes) and performing a 'chmod go+r *'
| ... which seems to do the trick.
|
| No comment on the QA from SCO.

Must be something wrong on your side, then, because in my
/opt/netscape/java/classes, as installed with by new 4.08, all the
entries were bin:bin and 755. Seems like a fine default to me. :-)


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j...@mercury.net

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Dec 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/30/98
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In article <36872E6E...@omnifarious.mn.org>,

"Eric M. Hopper" <hop...@omnifarious.mn.org> wrote:
> No matter how carefully I set up my CLASSPATH environment
> variable, Communicator 4.08 for UW 7 always complains about not being
> able to find java40.jar. It lists the value of CLASSPATH in the
> message, and often (depending on how I've set things up it contains
> java40.jar and/or a path to a directory that contains java40.jar.
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Thanks,

Eric, did you ever find out how to fix this in NS 4.08? I am having exactly
the same problem. I've tried CLASSPATH=/opt/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar
and that didn't work either.

Thanks,
Jim Dossey

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Geoff Clare

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Jan 6, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/6/99
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In <76c61e$rk8$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com> j...@mercury.net writes:

>> No matter how carefully I set up my CLASSPATH environment
>> variable, Communicator 4.08 for UW 7 always complains about not being
>> able to find java40.jar.

> I've tried CLASSPATH=/opt/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar


>and that didn't work either.

Try setting MOZILLA_HOME=/opt/netscape and leaving CLASSPATH unset.

Works for me (but on UW2.1, not UW7).

--
Geoff Clare <g...@root.co.uk>
UniSoft Limited, London, England.

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