Re: [OpenMap Users] Java 1.4.0_02 Problems

Hi Eliot,

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 07:51 AM, Eliot Lebsack wrote:

> Oct 15, 2002 7:46:24 AM java.util.prefs.FileSystemPreferences$2 run
> WARNING: Could not create system preferences directory. System
> preferences are unusable.

I haven't played with 1.4 yet, so I'm not sure how the JVM runtime
environment has changed.
Fair warning for potentially useless suggestion ahead - I seems like
the message is complaining about the permissions of the installation,
and access to the system preferences directory. I know you mentioned
changing the permissions of /etc/.java earlier, but I sounds like
something like that may still be the problem.

 From the Sun 1.4 installation page:

<quote>

System preferences -- By default, the installation script configures
the system such that the backing store for system preferences is
created inside the Java 2 SDK's installation directory. If the SDK is
installed on a network-mounted drive, it and the system preferences can
be exported for sharing with Java runtime environments on other
machines. As an alternative, root users can use the -localinstall
option when running the installation script, as in this example:

j2re-1_4_1-solaris-i586.sh -localinstall

This option causes the system preferences to be stored in the /etc
directory from where they can be shared only by VMs running on the
local machine. You must be root user for the -localinstall option to
work.

See the Preferences API documentation for more information about
preferences in the Java platform.

</quote>

- Don

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