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[Garvin <internetprofiles1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias can you check if you run this java test on your system to see
if it can play and record audio.

http://austincc.wimba.com/austincc/wizard/launcher.jsp

error is "initializing audio"
it never goes further on load.

I have been working on this issue for months. on a related ubuntu forum
we managed to confirm the above link only works on ubuntu 8.04 with sun
java once we upgrade to 8.10 or higher it does not work. I was wondering
if this post about java security permissions is related to the problem I
am having.

The original forum that was working on it is at this link

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1558065


I've since given up and now force to dualboot windoze 7 with ubuntu 11.10

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525883

Title:
  Java applet audio with pulseaudio broken (local apps likely broken)

Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openjdk-6-jre

  Problem: No audio output from applets in firefox using pulseaudio.

  
  charm% lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:        9.10

  This bug is in a combination of packages:
   - openjdk-6-jre 6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu1
   - openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu1
   - icedtea6-plugin 6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu1

  Examples:
    - Webex meetings
    - http://www.javazoom.net/applets/tinyplayer/tinyplayer.html

  Doing some investigation, I found two things:

   - There is a security policy problem for applets using sound
   - There is a packaging problem with the location of the native pulse library for java

  Working backwards using java stacktraces on stderr, I found the following permissions 
  were necessary to get audio output from java:

  $ cat .java.policy
  grant {
    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission 
          "loadLibrary.pulse-java";
    permission java.io.FilePermission 
          "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/i386/libpulse-java.so", "read";
  };

  Then, I found that the .so file didn't actually exist! Instead, it's
  in a different directory:

  $ dpkg -L openjdk-6-jre | grep pulse
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/libpulse-java.so

  Making a symbolic link fixed everything and made it work:

  $ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/i386
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-02-22 11:19 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/i386 -> ../i386

  I can't say how the policies should be managed for applets, but even
  regular java programs aren't likely to work until the packaging is
  fixed.

  -Dave

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