Yet another "Linux Newbie who can't make Limewire work" thread
 

I downloaded and installed JRE 1.3.1, and I got through all the PATH ev crap. But when I type sh runlime.sh, I get a fun group of error messages.
"Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal-
-*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]" - 20 of these.
"Warning: Cannot convert string "MetaCtrl<Key>Insert" to type VirtualBi
nding"
"runlime.sh: line 11: 3016 Segmentation fault java -classpath . R
unLime" - this is the one that crashes it
Any help in what these mean/making these not appear anymore would be much appreciated.

I'm a sad panda.

Making it work
 

First of all, for the font properties thing see the font properties section of the java release notes and download the revised font.properties file:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/relnotes.html

The MetaCtrlInsert mesasge is (I think) a Swing problem (Swing is a group of classes to make purty GUIs in Java) and it won't cause you any trouble.

You shouldn't be getting a segmentation fault. ;) Not sure what's wrong there. You may have more than one version of Java installed and an older one is running. Open and terminal and type:

java -version

And make sure that the version information is for Java 1.3.1. If it's not then you have older versions of java or Kaffe installed as well. (Kaffe is an open source implementation of java that mostly implements Java 1.1). Remove those if they are present.

Give it a try anyway.

same problem
 

Since 1.8-beta I have a segfault too. I'm using jre 1.3.1 (1.3.1-b24) on a Slackware 8.0 System. LimeWire 1.7 works fine and I'll stick to that for the time being.