Bug 678806

Summary: Unresolved deps installing java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: John Poelstra <poelstra>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Ryan Lerch <rlerch>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: dbhole, dgregor, jwest, lockhart, pkennedy, rbiba, rosset.filipe, sghosh, spurrier
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Hardware: x86_64   
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Description John Poelstra 2011-02-19 20:33:24 UTC
Description of problem:

Unresolved deps installing java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin and therefore cannot install and run the latest version of java-1.6.0-openjdk

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Install new RHEL 6.0 Workstation on x86_64

2) Register with RHN

3) Enable extra channels:
  a) Fastrack
  b) Optional
  c) Supplementary

4) yum update

5) yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
  -- crash and burn :-/

[root@localhost ~]# yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin.x86_64 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 for package: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6)
           Requires: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6
           Installed: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (@rhel-x86_64-workstation-6)
               java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0
           Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6)
               java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6
           Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.31.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6)
               java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.31.b17.el6_0
           Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6)
               java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Comment 1 John Poelstra 2011-02-19 20:43:08 UTC
FWIW, without the openjdk-plugin you can't run Elluminate.  I tried the Sun plugin, but it wouldn't work.  Haven't tried IBM.

Comment 7 Kevin Kofler 2011-02-21 23:45:19 UTC
From the changelog of the publicly available java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0.src.rpm:

* Thu Feb 10 2011 Jiri Vanek <jvanek@re…> - 1.6.0.0-1.36.b17
- removed plugin. How it comes in?!
- Resolves: rhbz#676295

(with the quoted BZ being hidden from public view, so I can't tell you more about it).

Comment 8 Deepak Bhole 2011-02-22 00:10:31 UTC
The plugin was removed after the .21 release and never re-added. Builds .32 to .35 were internal only (i.e. the build where the plugin mistakenly appeared again was never been public/on RHN).

Comment 9 John Poelstra 2011-02-22 00:17:49 UTC
What is the recommended way to run java web programs on RHEL?  Am I chasing the wrong package here?

Comment 10 Deepak Bhole 2011-02-22 14:10:09 UTC
Assuming you mean webstart (javaws) or applets, in order to run those, you will have to install one of the proprietary JDKs from the supplementary channels (e.g. java-1.6.0-sun{,-plugin})

Comment 24 Filipe Rosset 2011-03-30 20:53:23 UTC
Any chance java-1.6.0-openjdk be updated to include the -plugin in RHEL6 soon?
Or can anyone suggest a workaround as a temporary fix?

Comment 26 Deepak Bhole 2011-03-31 14:53:24 UTC
We are working on re-introducing the plugin into rhel via icedtea-web (a separate upstream project where the plugin exists).

In the mean time as a workaround you can use the Oracle plugin which is available in the supplementary channel as java-1.6.-0-sun-plugin