Major Java Errors (Very Odd)

[Richard]

On Friday 15 February 2008 1:04:47 am Chris Miller wrote:
> try "which jws" or was it "java-web-start"?
>
> Try and isolate whether it's on your path.  Java Web Start is an
> entirely different executable from the JRE itself.

Well,
I did a env in the terminal to see my path

KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
SSH_AGENT_PID=6354
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic
GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/rn/.gtkrc-2.0-kde:/home/rn/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/rn/.gtkrc:/home/rn/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
GS_LIB=/home/rn/.fonts
WINDOWID=56623111
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
USER=rn
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.flac=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.mpc=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.wav=01;35:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-knawPf6313/agent.6313
SESSION_MANAGER=local/elite:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6407
KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-8031,konsole)
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
DESKTOP_SESSION=default
KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-8031,session-1)
PWD=/home/rn
KDE_SESSION_UID=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
HOME=/home/rn
SHLVL=1
XCURSOR_THEME=DMZ-White
LOGNAME=rn
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
DISPLAY=:0.0
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
COLORTERM=
_=/usr/bin/env
rn at elite:~$   
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as you can see, PATH=
I also, went into synaptic and look up the java 6 installs, to see which 
directory the software got install into.

WOW, it would appear most of the JAVA is in the "/usr/lib/jvm" , then /usr, 
then /etc/java-6/

Q. Since this machine is my desktop machine, which is running the same java6
install, as my laptop... and both have the SAME PATH=, for Java...
and my Desktop is working FINE, then what gives ? it does not make since..

So, it can't be the PATH=, problem, something is not install correctly with 
JAVA on the Notebook, would appear to be the correct answer...
But, I don't know how to find the item or items that are having a problem.

Some have mention to remove that java and install java 7

TIA
Richard