Description of problem: Neither Yahoo Chess nor AOL Chess work on 32 bit firefox or 64 bit firefox when installed on either 32 bit fedora 9 or on 64 bit fedora 9. This is totally dissapointing seeing as I reported this bug back at the initial release of fedora 8. Both of these could be used back in fedora 7 when using netscape and maybe some sort of plugin wrapper. I don't know what good a computer is if you can't play chess online. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: ALWAYS Steps to Reproduce: 1. goto either http://games.yahoo.com/launch/ch&ss=1 or http://aolcom.pogo.com/games/chess?returnType=game&returnValue=chess2&nlruser=true 2. try to play a game of chess 3. don't be fooled if you get in a room, you can't get a game to start. Actual results: The online chess games don't work on fedora 9 platform. Even if you get lucky and happen to win the lottery and find an instruction manual on the web that tells you how to install flash and how to install java, the online chess games still cannot be played. Expected results: It is expected that fedora would not release a version of an operating system that doesn't come already prepared for playing chess online. Even in the pathetic event that there is not even so much as a button to push to automatically install java and flash, it is expected that if these other requirements are installed, the web browser should be capable of playing chess online at either yahoo or aol. Additional info: By the way, firefox 32 bit would not load any web pages when installed on 64 bit fedora 9. It's really pathetic that fedora releases a version of an operating system that has no hope for any use of java. They should wait until they figure out how to make the operating system fully functional before leading people to believe there is a new version available. Seriously, I had a more functional system when I had fedora 7. I don't bother to upgrade my operating system in hopes of losing functionality. I will add that the startup is quicker and the install is quicker too, so not all is lost. On the other hand, I will note that annoying messages were added to bother you when you log in a root as any person who owns their computer will do upon every use. I'm really pretty annoyed right now. Why is it that mac's allow you to install the complete windows operating system for so long and its still not even possible to play chess on a linux box, not to mention run windows inside it. Why can't linux at least catch up with mac? Their entire operating system is open source, right?
FYI: - java is included in Fedora 9 - no, MacOSX is not entirely open source Assigning to a more correct component.
I am afraid that the problem lies in our (non-)support for Java plugins, not in Firefox. When trying to run classical Java Chess (the current version is flash), I get all these messages in gdb: [Thread 0xb48b6b90 (LWP 7549) exited] [Thread 0xad277b90 (LWP 7546) exited] GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_Initialize GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_test_appletviewer Detaching after fork from child process 7562. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_test_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_Initialize: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/i386/../../bin/pluginappletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_Initialize return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_new GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_new return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_get_documentbase GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_get_documentbase return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: creating input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-0-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: created input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-0-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: creating output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-0-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: created output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-0-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_start_appletviewer Detaching after fork from child process 7564. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_start_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: got confirmation that appletviewer is running. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_create_applet_tag GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_create_applet_tag return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-0 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: tag http://games.yahoo.com/play/ch&jch=y&ss=1 <EMBED CODE="y.vmd.0" CODEBASE="http://origin.games.yahoo.net/games/clients/" HEIGHT="0" WIDTH="0" ><PARAM NAME="mayscript" VALUE="mayscript"><PARAM NAME="hspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="vspace" VALUE="0"></EMBED> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue: returning TRUE for NeedsXEmbed. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: setting window. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-0 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: handle 79695544 width 0 height 0 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue gcjwebplugin.cc:553: thread 0x842c688: Error: Unknown plugin value requested. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue gcjwebplugin.cc:553: thread 0x842c688: Error: Unknown plugin value requested. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return PIPE: appletviewer wrote: running PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-0 PIPE: appletviewer read: tag http://games.yahoo.com/play/ch&jch=y&ss=1 <EMBED CODE="y.vmd.0" CODEBASE="http://origin.games.yahoo.net/games/clients/" HEIGHT="0" WIDTH="0" ><PARAM NAME="mayscript" VALUE="mayscript"><PARAM NAME="hspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="vspace" VALUE="0"></EMBED> PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-0 PIPE: appletviewer read: handle 79695544 width 0 height 0 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return [New Thread 0xad277b90 (LWP 7582)] GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return [Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7543) exited] [New Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7583)] [Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7583) exited] GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return [New Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7585)] [Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7585) exited] [New Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7591)] [Thread 0xb047cb90 (LWP 7550) exited] PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status starting applet... GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status starting applet... PIPE: plugin read: status starting applet... GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback return PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status Applet loaded. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status Applet loaded. PIPE: plugin read: status Applet loaded. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback return PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status Applet initialized. PIPE: appletviewer wrote: status Applet started. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status Applet initialized. PIPE: plugin read: status Applet initialized. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback: setting status Applet started. PIPE: plugin read: status Applet started. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_in_pipe_callback return [New Thread 0xb047cb90 (LWP 7601)] [Thread 0xad277b90 (LWP 7582) exited] [New Thread 0xad277b90 (LWP 7625)] [Thread 0xad277b90 (LWP 7625) exited] GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_new GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_new return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_get_documentbase GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_get_documentbase return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: creating input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: created input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: creating output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: created output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_start_appletviewer Detaching after fork from child process 7631. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_start_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: got confirmation that appletviewer is running. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_create_applet_tag GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_create_applet_tag return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-1 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: tag http://games.yahoo.com/ygames/home/applet.php?room=chess_i&prof_id=chat_pf_1&small=no&follow=&nosignedcab=no&intl=us <EMBED CODE="com.yahoo.games.client.chess.ChessNormalApplet" ARCHIVE="y/ct5.jar" HEIGHT="100%" WIDTH="100%" CODEBASE="http://yog80.games.scd.yahoo.com/yog" ><PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="ygames_applet"><PARAM NAME="mayscript" VALUE=""><PARAM NAME="hspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="vspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="ad_image_url_prefix" VALUE="http://l.yimg.com/a"><PARAM NAME="logo_image_url_prefix" VALUE="http://l.yimg.com/a"><PARAM NAME="csc_url_prefix" VALUE="http://us.bc.yahoo.com"><PARAM NAME="ldict_url" VALUE="/yog/y/c/us-t5.ldict"><PARAM NAME="proxy_http" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="ycookie" VALUE="Y=v=1&n=6i7oepo7rtr80&l=24fbc0qq/o&p=m27vvcz113000500&jb=24|70|&ig=0dkag&iz=13001&r=07&lg=en-US&intl=us; T=z=.SOiIB.m1mIBs3bbBVyx5bCMzQ2Bk9ONjAxNE8yNA--&a=YAE&sk=DAA2cZSjAOLG5Q&ks=EAANAMFJeLZWovTGSjTo4dnYQ--~A&d=c2wBTkRNeEFUZzVNVGMyTXpnMU13LS0BYQFZQUUBZwFLU1NFUDdOQ1lZRzJCQjZPU0RYWkdNQ041RQFvawFaVzAtAXRpcAFWTDgweUEBenoBLlNPaUlCQTdF"><PARAM NAME="cookie" VALUE="id=ceplma00"><PARAM NAME="prof_id" VALUE="chat_pf_1"><PARAM NAME="label" VALUE="Wombat Wagon"><PARAM NAME="room" VALUE="chess_i"><PARAM NAME="league_id" VALUE="yahoo"><PARAM NAME="minimum_tablead_frequency" VALUE="2147483647"><PARAM NAME="lang" VALUE="us"><PARAM NAME="intl_code" VALUE="us"><PARAM NAME="intl_host" VALUE="games.yahoo.com"><PARAM NAME="agent" VALUE="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1"><PARAM NAME="category" VALUE="social"><PARAM NAME="page_id" VALUE="ch"><PARAM NAME="page_title" VALUE="Chess"><PARAM NAME="soundbase" VALUE="resource/"><PARAM NAME="profile_prefix" VALUE="http://profiles.games.yahoo.com/games"><PARAM NAME="http_poll_delay" VALUE="6000"><PARAM NAME="http_connect_delay" VALUE="35000"><PARAM NAME="show_9ball_option" VALUE="1"><PARAM NAME="port" VALUE="11999"><PARAM NAME="yport" VALUE="games.room.chess_i"><PARAM NAME="namespace" VALUE="yahoogamesc2"><PARAM NAME="useslibrary" VALUE="Yahoo! Chess"><PARAM NAME="useslibrarycodebase" VALUE="y/ct5_x.cab"><PARAM NAME="useslibraryversion" VALUE="0,0,0,1803"><PARAM NAME="signedcab" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="update" VALUE="5"><PARAM NAME="profile_consolidater" VALUE="chess.yahoo"><PARAM NAME="client_ip" VALUE="213.194.211.50"><PARAM NAME="titleImagePath" VALUE="/i/us/ga/sl_3/ch.gif"><PARAM NAME="nosignedcab" VALUE="no"><PARAM NAME="tableWindowTimeout" VALUE="15"><PARAM NAME="tableWindowMaxRetries" VALUE="4"><PARAM NAME="ratingmilestones" VALUE="2100|1800|1500|1200|0"><PARAM NAME="consolidatername" VALUE="chess"><PARAM NAME="serverclass" VALUE="com.yahoo.games.server.CompetitiveServer"><PARAM NAME="milestones" VALUE="1"><PARAM NAME="isleagueable" VALUE="yes"></EMBED> GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: NP_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue: returning TRUE for NeedsXEmbed. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: setting window. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-1 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: handle 79702783 width 786 height 357 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue gcjwebplugin.cc:553: thread 0x842c688: Error: Unknown plugin value requested. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue gcjwebplugin.cc:553: thread 0x842c688: Error: Unknown plugin value requested. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_GetValue return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window width changed. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-1 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: width 786 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window height changed. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: instance-7456-1 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: height 357 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return PIPE: appletviewer wrote: running PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-1 PIPE: appletviewer read: tag http://games.yahoo.com/ygames/home/applet.php?room=chess_i&prof_id=chat_pf_1&small=no&follow=&nosignedcab=no&intl=us <EMBED CODE="com.yahoo.games.client.chess.ChessNormalApplet" ARCHIVE="y/ct5.jar" HEIGHT="100%" WIDTH="100%" CODEBASE="http://yog80.games.scd.yahoo.com/yog" ><PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="ygames_applet"><PARAM NAME="mayscript" VALUE=""><PARAM NAME="hspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="vspace" VALUE="0"><PARAM NAME="ad_image_url_prefix" VALUE="http://l.yimg.com/a"><PARAM NAME="logo_image_url_prefix" VALUE="http://l.yimg.com/a"><PARAM NAME="csc_url_prefix" VALUE="http://us.bc.yahoo.com"><PARAM NAME="ldict_url" VALUE="/yog/y/c/us-t5.ldict"><PARAM NAME="proxy_http" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="ycookie" VALUE="Y=v=1&n=6i7oepo7rtr80&l=24fbc0qq/o&p=m27vvcz113000500&jb=24|70|&ig=0dkag&iz=13001&r=07&lg=en-US&intl=us; T=z=.SOiIB.m1mIBs3bbBVyx5bCMzQ2Bk9ONjAxNE8yNA--&a=YAE&sk=DAA2cZSjAOLG5Q&ks=EAANAMFJeLZWovTGSjTo4dnYQ--~A&d=c2wBTkRNeEFUZzVNVGMyTXpnMU13LS0BYQFZQUUBZwFLU1NFUDdOQ1lZRzJCQjZPU0RYWkdNQ041RQFvawFaVzAtAXRpcAFWTDgweUEBenoBLlNPaUlCQTdF"><PARAM NAME="cookie" VALUE="id=ceplma00"><PARAM NAME="prof_id" VALUE="chat_pf_1"><PARAM NAME="label" VALUE="Wombat Wagon"><PARAM NAME="room" VALUE="chess_i"><PARAM NAME="league_id" VALUE="yahoo"><PARAM NAME="minimum_tablead_frequency" VALUE="2147483647"><PARAM NAME="lang" VALUE="us"><PARAM NAME="intl_code" VALUE="us"><PARAM NAME="intl_host" VALUE="games.yahoo.com"><PARAM NAME="agent" VALUE="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1"><PARAM NAME="category" VALUE="social"><PARAM NAME="page_id" VALUE="ch"><PARAM NAME="page_title" VALUE="Chess"><PARAM NAME="soundbase" VALUE="resource/"><PARAM NAME="profile_prefix" VALUE="http://profiles.games.yahoo.com/games"><PARAM NAME="http_poll_delay" VALUE="6000"><PARAM NAME="http_connect_delay" VALUE="35000"><PARAM NAME="show_9ball_option" VALUE="1"><PARAM NAME="port" VALUE="11999"><PARAM NAME="yport" VALUE="games.room.chess_i"><PARAM NAME="namespace" VALUE="yahoogamesc2"><PARAM NAME="useslibrary" VALUE="Yahoo! Chess"><PARAM NAME="useslibrarycodebase" VALUE="y/ct5_x.cab"><PARAM NAME="useslibraryversion" VALUE="0,0,0,1803"><PARAM NAME="signedcab" VALUE="true"><PARAM NAME="update" VALUE="5"><PARAM NAME="profile_consolidater" VALUE="chess.yahoo"><PARAM NAME="client_ip" VALUE="213.194.211.50"><PARAM NAME="titleImagePath" VALUE="/i/us/ga/sl_3/ch.gif"><PARAM NAME="nosignedcab" VALUE="no"><PARAM NAME="tableWindowTimeout" VALUE="15"><PARAM NAME="tableWindowMaxRetries" VALUE="4"><PARAM NAME="ratingmilestones" VALUE="2100|1800|1500|1200|0"><PARAM NAME="consolidatername" VALUE="chess"><PARAM NAME="serverclass" VALUE="com.yahoo.games.server.CompetitiveServer"><PARAM NAME="milestones" VALUE="1"><PARAM NAME="isleagueable" VALUE="yes"></EMBED> PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-1 PIPE: appletviewer read: handle 79702783 width 786 height 357 GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return Warning: <param name=... value=...> tag requires name attribute. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow: window already exists. GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_SetWindow return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_Destroy GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer PIPE: plugin wrote: destroy GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_send_message_to_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_stop_appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_stop_appletviewer return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_destroy GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: deleting output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: deleted output fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-plugin-to-appletviewer GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: deleting input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_New: deleted input fifo: /home/matej/.gcjwebplugin/gcj-instance-7456-1-appletviewer-to-plugin GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: plugin_data_destroy return GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x842c688: GCJ_Destroy return PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-1 PIPE: appletviewer read: width 786 PIPE: appletviewer read: instance-7456-1 PIPE: appletviewer read: height 357 PIPE: appletviewer read: destroy PIPE: appletviewer read: shutdown APPLETVIEWER: exiting appletviewer [Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7591) exited] [New Thread 0xb18ffb90 (LWP 7700)] [Thread 0xb047cb90 (LWP 7601) exited] More information is on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Java#Handling_Java_Applets Reassigning to Java guys.
Yahoo Chess has now switched to Flash, but the rest of the games should work. There is a known issue with *some* games (like pool for example) where it just shows a grey window. The workaround for this is to go to the game options and select "Small Windows". AOL chess does not work, I am looking into it now.
Comment 3 refers to Rawhide/F10 by the way. F9 still has the old Java plugin which does not support Liveconnect.
I am using Fedora 11/Rawhide, and this bug still applies for all Yahoo Games on 64bit. I haven't tested 32bit, so perhaps this is something server side at this point? Yahoo Games I have tried include: Pool, Euchre, Hearts, Canasta I can get to the game rooms, however it refuses to let me join any actual games, so I think this is something wrong with IceTea/OpenJDK...
There is a workaround for some of the yahoo games that do not work. After you enter a room, before joining/creating a table, click options (bottom left), and check "Small window". That should make it work.. I know that requiring a workaround is not the ideal solution. I have tried to trace the issue but the applet is closed source, which makes it very difficult to find the problem.
Deepak, thank you very much, that is confirmed to work on all the games I play on that site! It might not be ideal, but it's not exactly a pain either - I usually have to go into the options anyway to decline invitations, much appreciated pointing this out!
(In reply to comment #5) > I am using Fedora 11/Rawhide, and this bug still applies for all Yahoo Games on > 64bit. I haven't tested 32bit, so perhaps this is something server side at this > point? Using just Fedora Java, chess (according to steps in the Description) just works with these packages, without any workarounds: bradford:~$ rpm -qf $(readlink -f $(which java)) java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-20.b14.fc11.x86_64 bradford:~$ rpm -q firefox xulrunner firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64 xulrunner-1.9.1-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64 bradford:~$ What's the URL for Canasta?
OK, I can confirm that Canasta (http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=ca&ss=1) doesn't seem to work out of the box. Moving to Fedora 11
Metaj: Just to assist you in your experiments, some simple URL's for Yahoo Games: (All follow http://games.yahoo.com/<code> where <code> is the two letter combo below) Canasta: ca Pool: pl Euchre: eu Hearts: he Spades: sp Graffiti: gr Backgammon: bg Checkers: ck Hopefully you actually enjoy a few of these games, which hopefully will be beneficial to your testing... although perhaps not if it becomes a distraction :P
As stated, every one of these games works flawlessly if you use Deepak's workaround, however, but all fail to render anything past the initial chat area where you join games without this option being changed.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
For whoever may need this: - The bug does not appear using Windows XP. - The bug appears using Ubuntu 9.04. - With Ubuntu 9.04, "Deepak's workaround" works (but the bug exists, anyway).
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This bug can't be fixed. Both of the games (Yahoo and AOL) are complex proprietary applets and the error is happening within the applet code somewhere, which makes it impossible to explore the cause.