Ran into this error today while trying to build the docbook file for Refactoring Redmine. It looks like it’s a problem with Java IPv4 IPv6 networking on Debian. Simple solution is to edit /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf and change net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 to 0. Thanks to Roberto for the fix. Hope this helps someone. My error log: Validating your document... java.lang.NullPointerException …
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Java Plugin in Firefox on Debian PPC
Note: This is for PPC users only, x86 users can just grab the files straight from Java.com I needed to get the Java plugin working with Firefox on my Mac Mini Debian install. Since I ended up using IBM’s Java, it was not automatically setup so after reading the docs (file:///usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/docs/navigation/index.en.htm?eng) that came with it …