[Coco] Drivewire and Ubuntu

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

On 14-05-16 07:55 PM, CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts wrote:
> Anybody got a surefire way I can recreate this or willing to give me a
> remote login to an effected system?   The new Ubuntu machine here isn't
> cooperating (it seems to work fine)
>
> Also, any idea what libsoup is?  Apparently its not happy but I've no idea
> why its involved or what it does.
> On May 16, 2014 9:51 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

libsoup appears to be related to browser detection.

I've had the same crash on at least two different 64 bit Linux Mint 
systems. It crashes out the jre itself before drivewire actually does 
anything useful. As near as I've been able to determine, it is either a 
bug in libsoup or the jre is using libsoup incorrectly (possibly both). 
(Mint is derived from Ubuntu so it probably uses the same libsoup and 
java packages.)

There is a -D<somethingorother> option you can add to the java line in 
the DW4UI.sh script that will get past it but I can't recall what it is 
now, and I don't have it in place on any system I currently have access 
to. The -D thing is only needed the first time - after that, the jvm 
seems to remember the setting.

Searching google shows that other java software has had the same problem 
with libsoup.

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William Astle
lost at l-w.ca