Renato Serodio wrote: > I've been experiencing some annoying behaviour on the part of my java > applications. I've managed to track the problem to a file the java > executable can't find. [...] > > Calling either from the command line works a charm. Calling any from the > menu does... > > ...nothing; that is, the process is not started. On looking at > .xsession-errors, we find the lines: > java: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Now, the responsible lives at: > /usr/lib/j2sdk6.0-sun/jre/lib/i386/jli/libjli.so > > > Here's where the fun starts. I made a debianized version of the current > java1.6 snapshot, and installed that. In any case, version 1.5 was > behaving the same way.. > > There's little around about this lib, but a post mentioned java should > be able to find it without setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. "This is a job > for... the java developers!"
For starters there is no libjli.so in Java SE 5.0. I suspect that reason this works on the command line, but not in the menu, is that you have set your path to include /usr/lib/j2sdk6.0-sun/bin but that setting is not in effect at the time your window session is started. There's a couple of workarounds 1. Give an explicit path to Java in the menu config, for example /usr/lib/j2sdk6.0-sun/bin/java 2. Add a (synthetic) jinfo entry for JDK 6 Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to install Sun Java SE 5.0 from unstable (apt-get -t unstable sun-java5-jre) and examine /usr/lib/jvm/.java-1.5.0-sun.jinfo You may find it easiest to move the JDK 6 tree to a similar location # mv /usr/lib/j2sdk6.0-sun /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun And then create an appropriate jinfo file /usr/lib/jvm/.java-6-sun.jinfo And finally choose this implementation # update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun Now /usr/bin/java will be set to point to JDK 6 (and as that is part of the path before your window session starts it should be found without trouble). In any case, no, you should not have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH -- it *is* a job for the java developers! HTH, --Tom _____________________________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Java Performance Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/tmarble What do you want from Java Libre? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
