Can someone explain why, with Mandrake, I encounter failures when doing symbolic links ?
Here is an example to explain the situation : I wanted to do a symlink from the J2RE plugin into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ When I do, as root : "cd /usr/local/j2re/plugins/ppc/mozilla/" "ln -s javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/" The link is reported in red (broken but pointing to the right place) with "ls -l" and when I launch galeon, I've got the message : LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so: Ne peut ouvrir le fichier d'objet partag�: Trop de niveaux de liens symboliques] For those who don't speak french, traduction : [/usr/...... : Can't open shared object file : too much levels of symbolic links] But when I first cd to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and then do: "ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so ." then the link is correct and the java works in galeon. I didn't have that problem before. I could link file from where I wanted to be to any location I wanted. Any idea ? Bertrand Dekoninck
