been having some problems myself getting connected (Kept saying unable to connect to minecraft.net), and from http://www.crazy-fools.co.uk/p/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?28901 it looks like it's a problem with OpenJDK.

I found a fix online,
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/
(I have java installed in /opt/jdk, so this will have to be modified depending on where you have java installed)

Otherwise, using Oracle's java sounds like it works too.

Sorry Conathan, can't help you on this one - I don't know much about Linux or programing in Java, so can't help

Best of luck getting it sorted - if you do - might be worth posting a little guide on how you fixed it in case other's are suffering the same problem.

I think he fixed it and he is telling people how

I found a fix online,
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/
(I have java installed in /opt/jdk, so this will have to be modified depending on where you have java installed)

Otherwise, using Oracle's java sounds like it works too.

conathan

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There's at least one more minecrafter with this problem on another thread (I think they went from openjdk to sunjdk though). so I thought if there's two (me and the other one), there could be more.