Bug#642972: IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:1506: Error: Failed to spawn applet viewer: Failed to execute child process /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/../../bin/java (No such file or directory)

2011-09-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote:

  
 /tmp/buildd/openjdk-6-6b18-1.8.7/build/../plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:1506:
  thread 0x7fde0fd631c0: Error: Failed to spawn applet viewer: Failed to 
 execute child process 
 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/../../bin/java (No such file or 
 directory)

More details.

The message comes from plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:1506
(of course).  This is from the function plugin_test_appletviewer(),
which is complaining that launching $appletviewer_executable --version
failed.  appletviewer_executable is set in NP_Initialize, using the
following logic:

filename=$(readlink icedtea plugin soname as obtained by dladdr())
appletviewer_executable=$filename/../../bin/java

Unfortunately, there was a version mismatch here --- my copy of
openjdk-6-jre-headless was from sid.  Downgrading both it and
openjdk-6-jre-lib seems to fix this.

Relevant dependencies:

 icedtea6-plugin/squeeze

Depends: openjdk-6-jre (= 6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1)

 openjdk-6-jre/squeeze

Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (= 6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1)

 openjdk-6-jre-headless/sid

Conflicts: openjdk-6-jre ( 6b17~pre3-1)

One fix would be to add a Breaks against openjdk-6-jre (= squeeze)
to openjdk-6-jre-headless/sid, to deal with upgrades from squeeze.
For the future, I suspect the dependency by -jre on -jre-headless
should be (= ${binary:Version}) to make the changelogs accurate,
anyway[1].

How about this patch (untested)?
---
 debian/changelog |9 +
 debian/control   |   15 ++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=136;bug=556015

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7f24dc2b..fb80e1c8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+openjdk-6 (6b23~pre9-2.1) local; urgency=low
+
+  * Tighten dependencies of packages with docdir symlinks so the
+changelogs document the same source version. Closes: #641240.
+  * openjdk-6-jre-headless: Break openjdk-6-jre ( 6b23~pre8-2).
+Closes: #642972.
+
+ -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com  Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:06:31 -0500
+
 openjdk-6 (6b23~pre9-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   [ Matthias Klose ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 14010550..c21ac370 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Package: openjdk-6-jdk
 Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: same
 Pre-Depends: ${dpkg:Depends}
-Depends: openjdk-6-jre (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, 
${misc:Depends}
+Depends: openjdk-6-jre (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, 
${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: libxt-dev
 Suggests: openjdk-6-demo, openjdk-6-source, visualvm
 Provides: java-sdk, java2-sdk, java5-sdk, java6-sdk, java-compiler
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Suggests: libnss-mdns, sun-java6-fonts, ttf-dejavu-extra, 
ttf-baekmuk | ttf-unfo
 Provides: java-runtime-headless, java2-runtime-headless, 
java5-runtime-headless, java6-runtime-headless, ${defaultvm:Provides}, 
${jvm:Provides}
 Replaces: openjdk-6-jre-lib ( 6b23~pre1), openjdk-6-jre ( 6b23~pre1), 
openjdk-6-jdk ( 6b20-1.9.1-0ubuntu2)
 Conflicts: ${multiarch:Conflicts}, openjdk-6-jre-lib ( 6b17~pre3-1), 
openjdk-6-jre ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-jdk ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-demo 
( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-source ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-doc ( 
6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-dbg ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-jre-zero ( 
6b17~pre3-1)
+Breaks: openjdk-6-jre ( 6b23~pre8-2)
 Description: OpenJDK Java runtime, using ${vm:Name} (headless)
  Minimal Java runtime - needed for executing non GUI Java programs.
  Using ${vm:Name}.
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ Package: openjdk-6-jre
 Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: same
 Pre-Depends: ${dpkg:Depends}
-Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (= ${binary:Version}), ${xandsound:Depends}, 
${shlibs:Depends}, ${dlopenjre:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${dep:bridge}
+Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (= ${binary:Version}), ${xandsound:Depends}, 
${shlibs:Depends}, ${dlopenjre:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${dep:bridge}
 Recommends: ${dlopenjre:Recommends}, ttf-dejavu-extra, icedtea-netx
 Suggests: icedtea-plugin, ${pkg:pulseaudio}
 Conflicts: icedtea-gcjwebplugin ( 1.0-1ubuntu4), openjdk-6-jre-lib ( 
6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-jre-headless ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-jdk ( 
6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-demo ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-source ( 
6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-doc ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-dbg ( 6b17~pre3-1), 
openjdk-6-jre-zero ( 6b17~pre3-1)
@@ -62,7 +63,9 @@ Description: OpenJDK Java runtime, using ${vm:Name}
 Package: openjdk-6-jre-lib
 Architecture: all
 Pre-Depends: ${dpkg:Depends}
-Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (= ${base:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless (= ${source:Version}),
+ openjdk-6-jre-headless ( ${source:Version}+b99),
+ ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: ${dlopen:Recommends}
 Conflicts: openjdk-6-jre-headless ( 6b17~pre3-1), openjdk-6-jre ( 
6b17~pre3-1)
 Breaks: openjdk-6-jre-headless ( 6b23~pre9-1~)
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ 

Bug#642972: IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:1506: Error: Failed to spawn applet viewer: Failed to execute child process /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/../../bin/java (No such file or directory)

2011-09-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: icedtea6-plugin
Version: 6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1
Severity: important
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

To work around Bug#642734, I installed icedtea6-plugin (and openjdk6-jre)
from squeeze.  Unfortunately when I try to use it to view an applet in
chromium, the result is a dialog box about not being able to launch
the java executable.  On the console I see a message:

 
/tmp/buildd/openjdk-6-6b18-1.8.7/build/../plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc:1506:
 thread 0x7fde0fd631c0: Error: Failed to spawn applet viewer: Failed to execute 
child process /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/../../bin/java (No 
such file or directory)

Indeed, java seems to be in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/bin,
not /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin.

Known problem?  Any ideas for tracking it down?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-00763-g4f4a8c1e83c0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages icedtea6-plugin depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.0.1-2  
ii  libc62.13-21  
ii  libcairo21.10.2-6.1   
ii  libfontconfig1   2.8.0-3  
ii  libfreetype6 2.4.6-2  
ii  libgcc1  1:4.6.1-12   
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-3 
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.24.6-1 
ii  libnspr4-0d  4.8.9-1  
ii  libpango1.0-01.28.4-3 
ii  libstdc++6   4.6.1-12 
ii  openjdk-6-jre6b18-1.8.7-2~squeeze1
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1  1.9.1.16-6   

icedtea6-plugin recommends no packages.

icedtea6-plugin suggests no packages.

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