Does anybody else have this problem…
It happens quite randomly. I can launch the same JNLP file 10 times, and get this about 50% of the time.
After this, the JRE (and thus the Java 6 splash screen) is simply terminated 3 seconds after I press OK
Never seen that before - better report it as a bug.
Cas 
Is the network connection its on a bit flaky, “recv failed” is normally due to a TCP (more commonly SSL) unexpected failure - i.e. timeout.
It’s still a crap message of course
Kev
I don’t have any network problems. Everything works just fine.
I first saw this message in u10, but I think it’s the same as the error in the previous versions of JavaWebStart with a IOException on connecting to the JARs (A.K.A. the infamous ‘it worked the second time’ problems)
It’s been a long time I’ve installed a JRE… The last time I manually did it, it was update 7
The last time I did it via Java Update (automatically) installed update 10.
-> It installed a release candidate of u10! :o
I’m 100% sure I didn’t install that one, I never mess with RC versions.
I figured this just was a bug in a Release Candidate right…? So I got the latest version (u10) from java.sun.com. I’m installing the 32bit version under x64 Vista.
I run the installer and get this immediately:
http://www.indiespot.net/files/splash_error_2.png
The 64bit version works fine, BUT HAS NO PLUGIN! :-X
Oh well… how hard can it be, Sun?
Please Sun. This is getting annoying.
P.S.
Nice Eclipse-logo in the error message
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Kev
I also got that too, I uninstalled most of the previous versions of Java and I think that solved the problem. Could be because I was using the RC version…
It’s so completely mindblowing that hundreds of thousands of innocent endusers are running a Release Candidate, because at some point in time, that was what was downloaded with Java Update. All these users are running into these problems.
Uninstalling and reinstalling just about everything fixed it. Thanks.
I had the same problem too. I hope it isn’t going to turn out to be an epidemic and completely ruin Update 10…
Cas
are you guys saying that there was an _automatic update from update 7 to 10rc? I know that someone once asked if a update from beta -> rc -> final would make sense which IMO absolutely does (@see firefox and others) but this is strange…
Indeed, I’m 100% sure the Java Update of u7 installed a RC on my machine.
It was a few days before the thread “Update 10 released” (or something like that) was posted on this forum, in which it became clear that even Sun hadn’t made it official, so that (making it official) happened a few days after that posting.
Seems like it was a chaos behind the scenes.