[Jalview-discuss] Re: installation problems

[James Procter]

Hi Dan. Thanks for getting back to me.

Daniel Rigden wrote:
> In fact the Webstart still doesn't work.  I get this exception
> 
> com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource:
> http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~ws-dev1/jalview/latest/webstart/jalview.jar
> 	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown
> Source)
> 	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown
> Source)
> 	at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
> 
> That's directing the browser to open it with javaws from
> jre-6u7-linux-i586.bin.
<insert something unprintable here> ... sigh.

ok. Notwithstanding any Proxy issues, it does look like something is
very broken. if the shell wrapper works then I'd go with that for the
moment - there still seems to be some installation issues with the JVM.

We do have some x86_64 machines that can be used to test
InstallAnywhere, and I'll post something to you (and the list) sometime
when I get to the bottom of this.

happy jalviewing (hopefully...) ..
Jim.