I'm getting CameraGuy's and Blackjack-21's symptoms (on a Mac with System 8.1) tonight. Tried both Netscape 4.7x and IE 5.0x, a few times each. No firewall, regular dial-up connection. It's worked fine every time until now.

More specifics, in case they help:

Netscape loads the 147K DigiChat applet (30+ seconds), shows the Chat screen with a grayed-out Connect button but no chat window, and crashes with a Type 3 error (but does not hang or bring down the system).

IE goes to the new page, says "Applet error ... closing" after a second or two, never displays the grayed-out Connect button, and leaves the new page in that state. The rest of its behavior, including other open pages, continues normally. It doesn't hang or crash.

In case it helps you folks debug this, the Java error log from one IE try follows. (I hope line size issues don't mess it up.)

4/4/2001 @ 1:29:2
java.lang.ClassFormatError
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java )
at apple.jam.JMAppletClassLoader.loadClass(JAMAppletC lassLoader.java)
at apple.jam.JMAppletClassLoader.findClass(JAMAppletC lassLoader.java)
at apple.jam.JMAppletClassLoader.loadClass(JAMAppletC lassLoader.java)
at apple.jam.JMAppletClassLoader.loadClass(JAMAppletC lassLoader.java)
at apple.jam.JMAppletViewer.doLoadCode(JAMAppletViewe r.java)
at apple.jam.JMAppletViewer.setState(JAMAppletViewer. java)
at apple.jam.JMViewerEvent.post(JAMAppletViewer.java)
at apple.jam.JMAWTContext.run(JAMSessionFrameHolder.j ava)
Class Loader Exception: fileioexception (digi.digichat.DigiChatApplet)
AWTContext exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
AWTContext exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
AWTContext exception: java.lang.NullPointerException


[This message has been edited by Efrem (edited 04-03-2001).]