Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

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
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: dbhole, dgregor, jwest, lockhart, pkennedy, rbiba, rosset.filipe, sghosh, spurrier
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Documentation, Reopened
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-06-15 03:49:51 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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