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Well that's a Java crash, not much can be done beside Apple Java guys FINALLY getting Java right. I have lots of those Java crashes. Sometimes I wish Sun would have done the Java port onto os x... Well maybe it'll be fixed in the next Java update.

Have you tried reinstalling Java 1.4.2 update 2? Because 10.3.9 did broke Java on some machines. http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...update142.html

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i already installed 1.4.2 version 2. any other suggestions?

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Installed: yes. But did you reinstall? That's what you need to do.
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coincidentally enough, or maybe not, Apple just this morning released a new Java update (1.0) for OSX 10.3.9. i installed it and now limewire works. maybe they were getting some flack about problems with 10.3.9 and Java.
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hummm this update is from 04/21/05... we are end of july. http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...acosx1039.html

You are certainly living in the past... Did you know that 10.4.2 is available
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hmm. that's strange because the Apple Software Update only this morning brought that Java update up as available. not sure why it would have waited until now.

i know we're up to 10.4.2, but i'm not a huge fan of constant upgrades. particularly when they cost me. i wait until there's a reason that i need to upgrade before spending any money.
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Hey Guys but I have the same problem. My Limewire isn't working. I was just wondering if you came to a solution to get it working again???

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mine is now working again, thanks to the latest Apple Java update 1.0. software updater should automatically bring it up.
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IT is absolutely ridiculous for you to imply that users of OS X need to upgrade to 10.4.2 to correct blatant errors in the JAVA implementation for 10.3.9 . There are many computer users such as myself that prefer to use our machines to get work done rather than as a platform for experimenting with bleeding edge code. I currently work with over a dozen music applications on my Mac and have no desire whatsoever to upgrade to 10.4.2 so that I can re-purchase broken sotware or spend hours applying patches or hunting for new drivers or even getting used to new "features", or even doing without because the small company that made it is gone. Apple released "Panther" and sold it to the public as a finished product that they should stand by, not abandon for the next thing and leave 20 to 30 percent of their customers wondering what happened. This sort of behavior reminds me of another software manufacturer that is notorious for the sloppiest code on the planet. I also find the attitude that computer users need to have the latest versions of software to be disproprtionatly supportive of the software manufacturers and (also the computer manufacturers) and a burden on computer users. If the software is seriously lacking, or flawed when it is sold, the consumer is essentially a beta tester for the manufacturer; this is unnacceptable. It is the job of the software manufacturer to convince me of the necessity of spending MY time upgrading their software. How so many people have been brainwashed into this mindless upgrading is beyond me. As for this issue with Limewire, I still don't have a working copy of Limewire on my machine because I made the terrible assumption based on history that Apple only provides patches that improve the quality of their software; seeing as how this has now been proved wrong, I have already turned off the auto-updating portion of software update and I will treat these suggested upgrades the same way I treat Microsoft's upgrades - with a VERY large grain of salt.
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I'm guessing you're using Panther, right? Yeah I feel a little similar about "some" of the things you said. And why should we have to pay for Tiger or Leopard.

But getting to the point of your problem, Take et voilà's suggestion about the "offline" Java 1.4.2 update 2 installer. It seems to generally do the job of fixing this Java saga. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...update142.html If it doesn't let you install it, then remove the Java142_update2.pkg file from the receipts folder; Receipts folder sample image After that, repair permissions by rebooting whilst holding down SHIFT key until you see the Safe Booting message. Then after fully started up, Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder & Repair permissions. Then reboot normally & try LW then.

BTW I recently (some days ago) upgraded to Tiger & installed Java 1.5, & on "my" system, LW seems to behave much better with it than Java 1.4.2 did in Panther. LW behaves faster & has yet to crash after a few days of heavy use. (I have large no. of incomplete & shares.) VM & ram is very consistent.

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