Thanks for all your help. I think my best solution will be to
reinstall 10.4 from disk and just start over. Reinstalling java 5
after removing the receipt did not help.
'which java' returns '/usr/bin/java' because I changed the symlink
'CurrentJDK' to point to 1.5.0
And yes, the app did initially run after installing java 5 so I must
have mucked something up after that point.
Thanks again,
Anthony Magee
macawm_at_gmail.com
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
On Aug 15, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
It depends on exactly what you did to make the 'java' command run
the 1.5
JVM. For example, a shell command-alias would not change the
JavaVM.framework's configuration, nor would a symlink named 'java'
in a
per-user ~/bin directory.
What does 'which java' say?
If it says /usr/bin/java, then you altered your configuration.
Whether you
consider the alterations little or large, you nonetheless have an
altered
configuration. Have you considered the possibility that your
alterations
broke something?
I tried removing bad fonts (someone suggested this when they got
a NullPointerException with the app). I used Font Book to verify
that all
of the installed fonts weren't corrupted. I also tried running it
under a
different user.
Before or after your alterations to redirect the 'java' command?
Has Java Preferences ever worked on your machine? Did you try it
before
you made your alterations?
As I recall the "fatal font" problems, one of the difficulties in
avoiding
it is that Font Book WON'T tell you that an offending font is corrupt.
That is, it thinks it's good, but it's really the cause of the
failure.
The other thing I recall is that perfectly good fonts installed in the
~/Library/Fonts folder could trigger the failure. Font Book won't
complain
about that, either.
Finally, was the different user a newly created account with all
default
preferences-files and a standard configuration for a new user, or
was it an
account that had been used before?
If you had a normal configuration right after installing J2SE 5.0,
and Java
Preferences failed to run, then that's worth reporting as a bug.
If you
applied alterations first, then you're on your own, and your best
approach
may well be to remove the 1.5 receipt and start over. As standard
voodoo,
though, run Repair Permissions first.
-- GG
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