[ubuntu-us-mi] Using javaws to launch a remote viewer on Ubuntu 10.04

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a recent update to my Ubuntu packages, I was no longer able to
> start a remote console.  A window would pop up displaying an error,
> part of which read:
>
>   Fatal: Application Error: Cannot grant permissions to unsigned jars
>
> It turned out that the systems was configured (or reconfigured) to use
> the javaws from the icedtea-netx package, which does not work.
> Unfortunately, I was unable to find a solution for this error staying
> with the icedtea-netx package.  Instead, the solution was to use
> javaws from the sun-java6-bin package, and adjust the alternatives
> setting using this:
>

You apparently don't update often as that change occurred several
months ago.   Oracle was prohibiting redistribution so OpenJDK had to
be used when security problems in Sun Java required an update.  This
update also caused problems for my clients due to OpenJDK
incompatibilities and broken proxy support.  I had to manually install
the updated Sun Java.