https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635365 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635365#c27 --- Comment #27 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-01-12 18:28:39 UTC ---
Do we positively know that it really did work? Could it be another java installed in parallel taking over where the non-recursive symlink resolver failed?
I have only had icedtea installed. It works on my laptop, but the bug shows up on my desktop. It was working on my desktop until the most recent icedtea update. Perhaps an update changes a library search order somewhere, and whether the bug shows up is sensitive to that search order. (Just a wild guess). Given that Michal seems to have a patch in the works, I'll leave things as they are for the moment. I am currently working around the problem with a java symlink at "/bin/java" - I remove that link for testing, then put it back later. And I periodically check the path that shows in "ps" output, as a way of checking whether it has been fixed. When the bug first showed up, I did a google search for the error message. The hits came mostly from other distros (ubuntu for example). The advice given was to uninstall icedtea and install sun-java. But if everybody followed that advice, it would never be fixed. So I have been sticking with icedtea with my symling work around. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.