Were you able to resolve the issue? I had the Aventail Connect client launching and accepting my network credentials but it would never connect. Then after I uninstalled it and re-installed, now it just gives me that Fatal error message on launch.
The Java console log contained something like:
[starting up Java Applet Security @ Sat Sep 18 18:46:28 PDT 2010]
Sat Sep 18 18:46:32 PDT 2010 JEP creating applet com.aventail.xepc.XEPCApplet (
https://workplace.xxxx.com/postauthI/)
<<< ProxyClassLoader: defined LiveConnectProxy class. >>>
<<< Here're the permissions you've got: >>>
<<< java.security.Permissions@c7e8a7 ((java.net.SocketPermission workplace.xxxx.com connect,accept,resolve)) >>>
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.aventail.util.AvPluginProxyServiceProvider.getProxyInfo(Unknown Source)
at com.aventail.xepc.sem.BrowserProxyHandler.detectProxy(Unknown Source)
at com.aventail.xepc.SEMApplet$2.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.aventail.xepc.SEMApplet.InitializeSEM(Unknown Source)
at com.aventail.xepc.interrogator.nix.NixEPCInterrogatorImpl.runLogon(Unknown Source)
at com.aventail.xepc.XEPCApplet$11.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.aventail.xepc.XEPCApplet.RunLogon(Unknown Source)
at netscape.oji.JNIRunnable.run(Native Method)
at netscape.oji.LiveConnectProxy.run(LiveConnectProxy.java:48)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at jep.LiveConnect$DoProxy.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:633)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
I have Ubuntu running in VirtualBox and the Linux client works fine. But it would be more convenient to get the Mac client working.