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Bug#689716: icedtea-7-plugin: gets null pointer exception trying to run Dell DRAC applet

 

Package: icedtea-7-plugin
Version: 1.3-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

Tried to connect to a DELL remote access controller (which sends some
java applets to the web browser

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Got a nullpointer exception

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Access to DRAC.  Used to work with sun java.

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Attepmting to connect to an old DELL DRAC device I get:

john@celtic:~$ iceweasel 
java version "1.7.0_03"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.1.2) (7u3-2.1.2-2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)
JAR https://drac.franconia/gui.jar not found. Continuing.
JAR https://drac.franconia/vncviewer.jar not found. Continuing.
JAR https://drac.franconia/jpeg.jar not found. Continuing.
netx: Initialization Error: Could not initialize applet. (DRSCAppletInterface)
netx: Initialization Error: Could not initialize applet. (DRSCAppletInterface)
net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize applet. 
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:735)
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.getApplet(Launcher.java:676)
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:886)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: DRSCAppletInterface
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(JNLPClassLoader.java:1609)
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.createApplet(Launcher.java:725)
	... 2 more
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at net.sourceforge.jnlp.NetxPanel.runLoader(NetxPanel.java:154)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:379)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:429)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

This used to work with sun java.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages icedtea-7-plugin depends on:
ii  icedtea-netx        1.3-2
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-35
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-2
ii  openjdk-7-jre       7u3-2.1.2-2

icedtea-7-plugin recommends no packages.

icedtea-7-plugin suggests no packages.

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