[PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java?

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Thu Jul 2 05:43:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:27:12 -0700
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java?
> 
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:38:38 -0700
> Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> dijo:
>
>> When I ran firefox from the command line, it started but showed no
>> plugins on the about:plugins line.  It threw an error to the shell:
>>
>>    LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>>    /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so
>>    [/usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libjavaplugin_jni.so:
>>     wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
>>
>>
>> I next tried a different symlink suggested by another site:
>>
>>    libnpjp2.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
>>
>> which resulted in:
>>
>>    LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
>>    /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
>>    [/usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so:
>>     wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
>>
>> Well, there are another 30 .so 's in that directory, I'm not trying
>> all of them.
>>
>> Does anybody know what that error means?  Low class elves?
>
> I have had experience with that error message in the past. It means
> that something is 32-bit and you are trying to run it on a 64-bit OS.
> Typically the error can be eliminated by installing some 32-bit library
> that whatever is complaining thinks it needs.
>
>> Has anyone got Firefox 3.5 and Java working with x86_84 ?
>
> I noticed the other day that it was released. But my FF 3.0.11 on
> Jaunty x86_64 seems to do everything I want it to do. Unless 3.5 can
> get me more sex, I'll wait until 3.5 is in the Ubuntu repos.

ELF is a format for binary executable files.  It seems like your
firefox is balking at a 64 bit binary.  Maybe your firefox is 32 bit.

Carlos



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