Problem with javaws, Mountain Lion, Oracle, Apple

Sat May 18 09:43:28 PDT 2013

> On May 17, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Abbey wrote:
> 
>> In each case, I get a pop-up message warning me that I need to install
>> the Java Runtime, despite it already being installed.
> 
> If you do this from Terminal what do you get?
> 
> /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/javaws -viewer
> 
> Works for me but oddly enough in Terminal I get. 
>  2013-05-17 18:48:55.261 java[1602:707] Sparkle Error: An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later.
> 2013-05-17 18:48:55.263 java[1602:707] Sparkle Error (continued): An error occurred while parsing the update feed.
> 
> anyone know where I might be getting this Sparkle error from. Looks like it might of prevented clean shutdown of the preferences app.

On May 18, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Marian Bouček wrote:

> Hello Mike.
> 
> I just looked to Disabled.plist and Enabled.plist files contained in  /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents. I sudo edited Disabled.plist file which contains error in SUFeedURL. The value of this property contained double dot '..' - once I repaired it, javaws no longer printed error for me. Maybe this can help you a bit.

Thanks but for me both the disabled and enabled plist files and the Info.plist as well
all appear to show...
http://download.java.net/jdk8/mac/au/au.xml

That file doesn't appear to exist
curl http://download.java.net/jdk8/mac/au/au.xml
<HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"><TITLE>Not Found</TITLE></HEAD>
<H1>Not Found</H1> The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. 

Checking from the browser it appears there is a http://download.java.net/jdk8 directory but it contains no mac directory.

So it doesn't seem to be a valid url for me but if it is the problem I don't know what to change it to in order to fix it.
I am going to cross-post this one to macosx-port

Michael Hall

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