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[Brian Allen Vanderburg II <brianvanderburg2@xxxxxxx>]

Package: openjdk-7-jre
Version: 7u25-2.3.10-1~deb7u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?

A recent update from Debian Wheezy included a new version of the OpenJDK/JRE
runtime.  According to Debian packages, this update is from the security
repository.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

Several days after installing the update, I attempted to complete a homework
assignment that uses Java (Cisco/Netspace assignment that uses PacketTracer).

* What was the outcome of this action?

Originally this worked just fine but after the update, the PTSA player failed
to load.  Also the Java test page failed to load at http://www.java.com/verify,
however, the page at http://www.javatester.org/version.html works.  When I run
Firefox from the console, I get the following information:

    java version "1.7.0_25"
    OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.10) (7u25-2.3.10-1~deb7u1)
    OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

It appears that the applet wants to run, but then it doesn't.  To verify that
it wasn't my browser, I installed Chromium and tested with the same results.
I'm running a kernel from backports (3.13).  To verify that it wasn't my system
in general, I tested it out in a virtual machine running Debian Wheezy,
installed openjdk-7 (1.7.0.25) and icedtea-7-plugin.  I tested it in Iceweasel,
still.  A status bar message indicates the applet is loading, but it never
loads and the page times out to tell me it can't tell if I have java installed.
Still, some pages, such as javatester, work, while the java.com/verify page and
Cisco net academy pages don't.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

I expected the applets to run as they did before I updated.

* Details

OS: Debian Wheezy
Kernel: 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64
OpenJDK: 7u25-2.3.10-1~deb7u1
IcedTea-7: 1.4-3~deb7u2
Firefox: 28.0 64 bit
Sources.list:
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
    deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-
free
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

To currently remedy the problem, I've downloaded and installed the JRE from
Oracle and created the symlink in ~/.mozilla/plugins


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-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 openjdk-7-jre depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-4
ii  libatk-wrapper-java-jni   0.30.4-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-3
ii  libcups2                  1.5.3-5+deb7u1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libgif4                   4.1.6-10
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.5-4+deb7u2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-2
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.49-1
ii  libpulse0                 2.0-6.1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxi6                    2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.2-1+deb7u1
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.3.2-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxtst6                  2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
ii  openjdk-7-jre-headless    7u25-2.3.10-1~deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages openjdk-7-jre recommends:
ii  libgconf2-4       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgnome2-0       2.32.1-3
ii  libgnomevfs2-0    1:2.24.4-2
ii  ttf-dejavu-extra  2.33-3

Versions of packages openjdk-7-jre suggests:
ii  icedtea-7-plugin  1.4-3~deb7u2

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