icedtea-web v1.2 plugin + openjdk7 builds on linux/64, but quietly fails to load in Firefox12

[Deepak Bhole]

* jerry2can at mailcan.com <jerry2can at mailcan.com> [2012-05-05 16:13]:
> i'm trying to get icedtea v1.2 plugin built for openjdk7 and working in
> Firefox 12 on linux/64.
>  
> on
> 
> uname -a
> 	Linux ldev 3.1.10-1.9-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 5 18:48:38
> 	UTC 2012 (4a97ec8) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> with
> 
> 	gcc -v
> 		...
> 		gcc version 4.7.0 20120413 [gcc-4_7-branch revision
> 		186417] (SUSE Linux) 
> 
> and
> 
> 	javac -version
> 		Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dswing.aatext=true
> 		-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Xmx512M
> 		javac 1.7.0_147
> 
> 
> reading at,
> 
> 	http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#IcedTea-Web_1.2
> 
> 		"OpenJDK7 support     Deepak Bhole     Done"
> 
> dl'ing
> 
> 	wget -c
> 	http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.2.tar.gz
> 	tar zxvf icedtea-web-1.2.tar.gz
> 	cd icedtea-web-1.2/
> 
> building,
> 
> 	export MOZILLA_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/xulrunner-sdk/include"
> 	export MOZILLA_LIBS="-L/usr/local/xulrunner-sdk/lib"
> 	./configure \
> 	--prefix=/usr/local/icedtea-web \
> 	--with-jdk-home=/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0 \
> 	--enable-plugin
> 		...
> 		checking for MOZILLA... yes
> 		checking for xulrunner version... 20000000
> 		checking for xulrunner version... (cached) 20000000
> 		...
> 		checking for a JRE home directory...
> 		/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0/jre
> 		checking for a Java virtual machine...
> 		/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0/jre/bin/java
> 		...
> 
> 	make
> 	make install
> 	strip --strip-unneeded
> 	/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> 
> 	file /usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
> 		/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so: ELF
> 		64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
> 		dynamically linked,
> 		BuildID[sha1]=0xd787630f047c7058b629fa9a6a0b4ca3495d348b,
> 		stripped
> 
> 	ln -sf /usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so \
> 	       /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
> 
> 
> @ firefox launch, check @ about:plugins, there's no trace of the Java
> plugin.
> 
> checking, with
> 
> 	strace firefox
> 		...
> 		lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=45, ...}) = 0
> 		readlink("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so",
> 		"/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so", 4095) =
> 		45
> 		lstat("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...})
> 		= 0
> 		lstat("/usr/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=4096,
> 		...}) = 0
> 		lstat("/usr/local/icedtea-web", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755,
> 		st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> 		lstat("/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> 		lstat("/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=209296, ...}) = 0
> 		...
> 		stat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=342986, ...}) = 0
> 		stat("/usr/local/icedtea-web/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=209296, ...}) = 0
> 		stat("/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so",
> 		{st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=342921, ...}) = 0
> 		...
> 
> there's no immediately obvious problem ...
> 
> as a first step tp deteriming if the problem is Firefox or the plugin
> build, i'd like to get anything to 'squawk' verbosely enough to give me
> a hint.  Is there some more verbose, telling test I can run @Firefox, or
> in the plugin itself?


Can you try running with ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG=true firefox and post the
console log?

Thanks,
Deepak