[Coco] Drivewire and Ubuntu

[CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts]

Good catch William!

This may fix things:

java -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla -jar DW4UI.jar
On May 16, 2014 10:47 PM, "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> 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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