In some instances, a web browser may hang or crash while running Solaris Web Start. If this occurs, the Solaris Web Start session needs to be restarted.
Workaround: To Resume Using Solaris Web Start: What you do depends on the type of failure, and on where you were accessing Solaris Web Start. Select the appropriate option below.
Table 1-1 Resuming Solaris Web Start
Action |
Access from Remote System |
Access from System being Installed |
---|---|---|
Browser vanishes |
Restart the browser and reconnect to the URL |
Choose Continue |
Browser hangs |
Kill the browser process (see below), and then restart the browser and reconnect to the URL originally provided. |
Kill the browser process (see below) and then choose Continue. |
To kill the browser process (HotJava is used here as an example), open a console window and type the command:
# ps -ef | grep java |
The output of this command is as follows:
myname 11892 410 0 hh:mm:ss pts/x 0:00 grep java myname 11878 11877 23 hh:mm:ss pts/x X:XX /usr/java/bin/java ... |
The first number in the second line is the process ID of the browser. To kill the process, type kill -9 followed by the process ID.
In this example, type:
# kill -9 11878 |