[packman] liquidlnf-0.2.6-0.pm.1 breaks Java Web Start

[Toni]

Am Dienstag, 20. Februar 2007 schrieb Tilman Vogel:
> Hi!
>
> Just experienced, that after installing
>
> liquidlnf-0.2.6-0.pm.1
>
> on SuSE 10.0 with java-1_5_0-sun-1.5.0_10-0.1, Java Web Start cannot be
> started anymore:
>
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/javaws
>
> just crashes with
>
> Exception in thread "AWT-XAWT" java.lang.Error: can't load
> com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel
>         at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1176)
>         at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1257)
>         at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1245)
>         at javax.swing.UIManager.getDefaults(UIManager.java:556)
>         at javax.swing.UIManager.getColor(UIManager.java:590)
>         at
> com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifBorders$BevelBorder.<init>(MotifBorders.
>java:43) at
> com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(MotifL
>ookAndFeel.java:197) at
> sun.awt.X11.XAWTLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(XAWTLookAndFeel.java:81)
>         at
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.getDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:1
>07) at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.initUIDefaults(XToolkit.java:232)
>         at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.run(XToolkit.java:437)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>
> The reason is
>
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/swing.properties
>
> containing
>
> swing.installedlaf.liquid.name = Liquid
> swing.installedlaf.liquid.class = com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel
> swing.defaultlaf=com.birosoft.liquid.LiquidLookAndFeel
>
> but the respective
>
> /usr/share/java/liquidlnf-0.2.6.jar
>
> is not found by the default class path... Sorry, I don't know enough
> about Java packages to tell how to fix it... A workaround is to
>
> ln -s /usr/share/java/liquidlnf* /usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/ext/
>
> but I have the feeling, that's not the proper way to do it...
yes, thats one of the possible solutions. 
I'll upload a new package in the next hours.

> After
>
> rpm -e liquidlnf
>
> Java Web Start works again.
but some other packages won't work, because they need liquidlnf ...

> Regards,
>
> Tilman
Toni