openSuse had mounts in fstab that could not be executed because the file system was destroyed by a badly behaving disk. i used this command to reformat the drive. rebooting then allowed the drive to mount.

mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1

tune2fs will configure when the filesystem is rechecked for no corruption.

To solve it delete your Java 1.5.0JDK and replace it for a j2sdk1.4.2_07 (that's mine ^^ )

$ ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_07/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-<yourversion>/plugins

If you have any browsers running close them and restart after the ln -s

you succesfully installed Java on Firefox