Strange Java errors in chromium-browser after upgrade

[jesushlincoln]

Hey all,

I recently upgraded from 11.04 to 12.04 (a little late, I know) on my EEE PC so that I could upgrade pepper flash and java in chromium so that my mother could keep playing these horrid, poorly-coded little games on a website called pogo.com. Just today, although the flash-based games still continue to work fine, the java games refused to load altogether giving an error that I MUST upgrade to Oracle Java 7 Update 25 due to necessary security updates.

I followed some instructions online that led to me adding a webupd8 PPA to install the "oracle-java7-installer" package via apt-get. Running "java -version" tells me it's Java 7 Update 25, but chromium still reports the plugin as being out-of-date even after symbolically linking the updated libnpjp2.so to the right directories. When running it from a terminal, the following error shows up whenever I try to load any java applet:


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386/libnio.so: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libnet.so: version `SUNWprivate_1.1' not found (required by /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386/libnio.so) at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.jav a:1957)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.jav a:1882)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java :1864)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:849)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1087)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibr aryAction.java:67)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibr aryAction.java:47)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Util.load(Util.java:487)
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.<clinit>(IOUtil.java:351)
at sun.nio.ch.Util.<clinit>(Util.java:48)
at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.<clinit>(FileChannelImpl.java:1132)
at java.io.FileInputStream.getChannel(FileInputStream .java:364)
at com.sun.deploy.util.SyncFileAccess.openLockFileObj ect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.util.SyncFileAccess.openLockFileInp utStream(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.loadPropertiesF ile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.refreshProperti es(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.init(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.config.ClientConfig.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.config.PluginServerConfig.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.main.server.JVMManager.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.main.server.JVMManager.getManager(Unkn own Source)
at sun.plugin2.main.server.MozillaPlugin.maybeStartAp plet(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.main.server.MozillaPlugin.setWindow(Un known Source)


I was able to find some vaguely similar errors on Google, but every single instance was somebody programming new Java code and having the errors pop up during compilation; nobody else seems to be or have been experiencing this same issue with Oracle Java 7 Update 25. If anybody can give me some leads or info on what I might do (other than completely uninstalling and reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04 and seeing if it suddenly starts working), that would be MUCH appreciated.

[valvegrid]

I've got a similar problem, I've tried all sorts of links and nothing works, I would have thought this should have worked:-


cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins


sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so libnpjp2.so

I can see the link in the plugins folder and it points to the right place.

Both Firefox and Opera have found Java 7 Update 25, it will be interesting to see if you get any replies on what we are doing wrong. We are probably are doing something wrong, but I can't see it.

[nico_r2]

Same problem here after Upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04.

about:plugins shows

Java(TM)- Version: 10.40.2Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.40.2 for Mozilla browsers



Name:
Java(TM) Plug-in 10.40.2





Description:
Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.40.2 for Mozilla browsers





Version:
10.40.2





Location:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so




Plugin is loaded via symlinks in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and works absolutely fine in Firefox. Has something changed in Chromium's libnet.so?

"strings /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libnet.so | grep SUNWprivate" returns nothing.

[EdRoxter]

Upgrading xUbuntu to 13.10 Saucy with Chromium 29.x makes everything work again. Pity there's no backport or PPA that ports the absolutely recent Chromium versions to 13.04.

[erevilla]

Hi.

Today I did a dist-upgrade on my 12.04 (Precise) and I had exactly the same issue with Chromium 30.

I uninstalled chromium-browser packages and installed versión 29 from ppa:chromium-daily/stable:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable
$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser=29.0.1547.57-0ubuntu0~cm4 chromium-browser-l10n=29.0.1547.57-0ubuntu0~cm4

Now, the applets are working again.

Regards.
Erny

[erevilla]

I've just submitted a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1250550