I have a problem wherein I cannot connect to our Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (version 7.6) page, so I wonder if it is a Debian thing. I'm using Iceweasel (3.5.9 through 3.5.11), and sun-java6 6.21. Ny coworker, running an old Fedora box (F-8 or F-9 maybe?) can connect to it. Unfortunately, I don't know a thing about java, and there is nothing that jumps out at me in the avalanche of errors that Java gives me.
When I go to the site on port 9000, it offers me a pop-up to download the gconsole.jnlp file. I choose "Open with..." and select javaws. It opens Java, then thinks about it and says "Unable to launch the application." I click on details, and am attaching the exception and wrapped exception. Can anyone decipher this and tell me whats going on? Thanks, --b The exception was: com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://foo.bar.net:9000/gconsole.jnlp at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1372) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1525) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1503) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1609) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1534) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:217) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:201) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Launcher.java:468) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:247) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:198) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:115) at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:417) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:249) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:111) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) The wrapped exception was: java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:163) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:394) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:529) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:233) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:323) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:860) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:801) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:726) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(BasicHttpRequest.java:185) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(BasicHttpRequest.java:113) at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequest(BasicHttpRequest.java:78) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1182) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1525) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1503) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1609) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1534) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:217) at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:201) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Launcher.java:468) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:247) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:198) at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:115) at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:417) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:249) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:111) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)