Re: Help needed: Bug#625562: figtree: fails to start

2011-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > So what is the proper / suggested fix? I see two options: > 1. Use a shell wrapper instead. > 2. Enforce binfmt_misc somehow (if yes - how?) > I wonder how other packages which are using the same technique are solving > this problem. I'm pretty sure that we enable

Re: Help needed: Bug#625562: figtree: fails to start

2011-05-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:17:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > /usr/bin/figtree is a symlink to an executable JAR file. Yes, this is what I have seen in other packages and what seemed to me some suggested way to go. > I believe in > order for executable JAR files to be passed to Java properly, t

Re: Help needed: Bug#625562: figtree: fails to start

2011-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > I have no idea how to track down this problem because I can not reproduce > it. Does it sound somehow familiar for a known problem? /usr/bin/figtree is a symlink to an executable JAR file. I believe in order for executable JAR files to be passed to Java properly, the us

Help needed: Bug#625562: figtree: fails to start

2011-05-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I have no idea how to track down this problem because I can not reproduce it. Does it sound somehow familiar for a known problem? Thanks for any hint Andreas. - Forwarded message from Carlos Reding - X-Debian-PR-Message: followup 625562 X-Debian-PR-Package: figtree X-Debi