From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 9 02:47:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06307 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 02:47:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA06257; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 02:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA14917; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:26:51 +0100 Message-ID: <34DECBDB.E2B90829@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:26:51 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Burr CC: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Excessive crashing of Netscape? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Donald Burr wrote: > I just installed Netscape (Communicator 4.04, the dynamically-linked > FreeBSD binary version) from the ports tree. > > Unfortunately, I am having some problems with it. > > On the whole, it seems to work ok; however, sometimes the program dies > (for no apparent reason) with a SIGBUS. > > Also, it locks up a lot. The lock up is complete (the little > "meteor shower" stops showering, and the process can't be killed - I have > to use a 'kill -KILL' to get rid of it). > > These things don't happen regularly -- I can be using Netscape perfectly > for hours and hours (my last Netscape process was running for over five > days before it went belly-up), and it crashes/hangs through different > actions (i.e. there is not one single set of actions that I can isolate > that cause it to die). > > My system is a P133 with 32MB EDO RAM and 3.2GB disk, running > 2.2.5-RELEASE (a clean install). > > Is anyone else having this problem with Netscape? Does the Linux version > work better? Any ideas what might be going wrong here? > I run Netscape 4.04 regularly on FreeBSD and Solaris SPARC boxes, and those problems happen with both machine types, identically. I think that the problem is in the UNIX port of Netscape. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message