>I have two Linux computers. On one, a 486 Tandy 3950 laptop, >"appletviewer" with no arguments hangs before giving me the copyright >notice box. On the other, a Gateway 2000 60 mhz Pentium, appletviewer >seems to work fine. I have tried to minimize the differences between >the systems. > >Any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] made the excellent suggestion that I use strace to see what is going on with the 486. The last few calls in the strace were a bunch of reads and writes to fd 4 (probably the X server), a call to uname (which still returns default information, since my 486 was never given a name), and mmap. This points out another difference between the 486 where Java fails and the Gateway where it wins: the Gateway has networking configured and the 486 doesn't. Does Java need a network and a real machine name and /etc/hosts file to function? -- Tim Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.infoscreen.com/resume.html Web-centered Java, Perl, and C++ programming in Silicon Valley or offsite
