Description of problem: Installed Oracle JDK 1.7.0.17, enable it with alternatives like here: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-sun-oracle-java-jdk-jre-7-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ and then open with galternatives javaws Version-Release number of selected component: galternatives-0.13.4-12.fc18 Additional info: cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/galternatives executable: /usr/sbin/galternatives kernel: 3.8.1-201.fc18.i686.PAE uid: 0 Truncated backtrace: alternative.py:90:__init__:OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/alternatives/javaws' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/galternatives/main.py", line 371, in alternative_selected_cb self.update_metainfo () File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/galternatives/main.py", line 466, in update_metainfo self.alternative = Alternative (tm.get_value (iter, self.ALTERNATIVES)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/galternatives/alternative.py", line 90, in __init__ (unixname)) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/alternatives/javaws' Local variables in innermost frame: altfile: <open file '/var/lib/alternatives/javaws', mode 'r' at 0xb73ab7b0> locale: 'C' line: '' unixname: 'javaws' self: <galternatives.alternative.Alternative instance at 0x830e6ac> Potential duplicate: bug 839165
Created attachment 707319 [details] File: backtrace
Created attachment 707320 [details] File: core_backtrace
Created attachment 707321 [details] File: environ
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