IcedTea-Web does not start downloaded application in Windows 10 Pro

[Gaismair]

Hi,

I have been using IcedTea-Web v1.8.8 64 bit to launch a .jnlp application downloaded from a server to establish a remote session to this server.

However when I double click on the .jnlp application IcedTea-Web starts but then displays this message:

'C:\users[usrname].config\icedtea-web\security\trusted.cacerts (Acess is denied)' during operation 'load keystore' C:\users[usrname].config\icedtea-web\security\trusted.cacerts. Attempts to unlock: 1 Enter type correct password or press Ok or press Cancel to continue without verifying the Certificate.

Clicking Ok or Cancel does not work. I see the same issue with older versions of IcedTea-Web.

I tried also OpenWebStart and after running the OpenWebStart configuration tool with administrative privileges that worked fine.

I assume this issue happens because of how our Windows clients are set up in the company I work for.

I tried to change how javaws.exe is launched by using the rcedit tool from

https://github.com/electron/rcedit/releases

but that did not work as the tool couldn't change the privileges.

Please advise how I can run a .jnlp file with IcedTea-Web with local administrative privileges.

Thank you!

[Gaismair]

In the mean time I found that OpenWebStart has a bug - it does not download the .jnlp file at all. When using the RedHat JRE or JDK 8 for Windows all works perfectly fine.

Please investigate and fix.

Thank you!

[seliinozkan]

Is there any update here? We have the same issue

Thanks, Selin

[Gaismair]

Hi Selin,

Due to the missing feedback / solution, I did some investigations of myself.

The only way to resolve this issue was by completely removing IcedTea-Web, cleaning up the registry from any leftover entries, rebooted the Windows machine. I then re-installed IcedTea-Web again, after the installation I rebooted my system and it worked. However, I did then remove it again, clean the registry, and now I am using OpenWebStart v1.6.

I did some exhaustive tests with different open JREs from various suppliers and found that these all work perfectly fine. I tested IBM's version, Redhat, Amazon etc.

Sadly, at this point, I am not using IcedTea-Web any more due to the lack of resolution of my problem report.

[seliinozkan]

Thank you Gaismar! we solved the problem by following your method and were able to launch GUIs without the Keystore boxes popping up.

[Gaismair]

YvW, Selin. Glad to have helped to solve this rather unpleasant issue.

Kind regards,

Gaismair