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** Changed in: icedtea
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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icedtea6-plugin doesn’t work in AFS network home directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444641
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Status in Iced Tea: Confirmed
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
The icedtea plugin creates fifos at ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-appletviewer-to-plugin and ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-plugin-to-appletviewer.  So if $HOME is in an AFS filesystem, which doesn’t support fifos, the plugin doesn’t work at all.  For example, this makes the plugin unusable for MIT Athena machines.