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Enav
February 17th, 2010, 12:08 AM
Description:
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- Every time you want play or preview some audio file on LimeWire/Frostwire its do not work and some times this makes crash the sound system

Details:
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- JVM = Java Virtual Machine
- LimeWire/Frostwire are programs based on the Java platform and they need JVM to work
- "java-6-sun" is the official Sun's JVM but some parts of this package are closed source code (about 4%)
- "java-6-openjdk" is a open source code implementation (100% open source)
- Ubuntu 9.10 actually have installed and running "java-6-openjdk" and "java-6-sun" same time
- Ubuntu 9.10 by default use "java-6-openjdk"
- In this case "java-6-openjdk" have some audio bugs
- To solve this problem you only need to make "java-6-sun" the system default JVM instead of "java-6-openjdk"

Solution:
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1- Close all programs
2- Open terminal
3- Run: sudo update-alternatives --config java
That is going to show you something like this:


There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).
Selection Path Priority Status
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0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 manual mode
* 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java 63 manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice
, or type selection number:4- Enter the number relating to "java-6-sun" option and press [Enter] key
5- Restart Ubuntu
6- Open LimeWire/FrostWire and test some audio files
7- Enjoy :)


:arrow: Remember to send a reply, if this information solved your problem

Enav
February 17th, 2010, 12:57 AM
Sorry - the post above is not working completely
this just make the Java sounds works for some minutes and crash the sound system again
:icon_frown:

ve7eme
September 1st, 2010, 04:07 AM
Solved, and am using Linux Mint 9, and Frostwire 4.20 from Frostwire Web site
Thanks :KS

ve7eme
November 20th, 2010, 05:52 PM
:p Solved Thanks for the tip, Frostwire 4.21 and LM9

Darrel