Problem solved! Actually there were two problems. First of all, Glenda
Monzon <gmonzon_at_dticam.dtic.mil> pointed out that slow Java startups were a
problem documented in the DU 4.0E release notes. When I was patient enough
to wait for 18 (!!!!) minutes, Java started under 4.08.
Then I felt inspired to try one more time when I received a message from
Don <rye_at_jwfc.acom.mil> stating that he had installed 4.0E and downloaded
4.5 Communicator and it ran fine as root. Turns out that the owners and
groups for all of the Java files are out of whack! Just chown them to root
and chgrp them to system and it all runs fine. In fact, chown/chgrp
everything in the Netscape directory because some others are incorrect as
well.
Thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions.
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
Asst. Director of Computer Services P.O. Box 1773
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 245-1256
FAX: (717) 245-1690
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Don Newcomer wrote:
> Still no progress. I received lots of suggestions about setting
> MOZILLA_HOME (I was already doing that) and where all of the .jar files
> should be located. I even tried to set the CLASSPATH environment variable
> but the error message referenced the plugin directory. When I changed the
> environment variable for the plugins, it referenced the java files!
>
> I got exasperated and dumped 4.5 and downloaded and installed 4.08. Now it
> will give me the "Starting Java" message and then consume 95+% of the CPU
> and do nothing. I tried to be patient but ended up killing the process
> after 10 minutes of nothing but lots of CPU cycles.
>
> This is really frustrating since I'm considering updating our Netscape
> Directory Server to version 4.0. I just read the release notes and they
> say that the administration of the server is ALL Java-based! Great, since
> I can't make Java work! Any new ideas would be welcomed...
Received on Mon Feb 22 1999 - 17:40:43 NZDT