Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:33:11 +0100 (MET) From: Werner Griessl <werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> To: (Dan Strick) <dan@math.berkeley.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: latest kernel breaks linux netscape. Message-ID: <XFMail.981109133311.werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> In-Reply-To: <199811062045.MAA18819@math.berkeley.edu>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:981109133311:22665=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 06-Nov-98 Dan Strick wrote: >> Is the FBSD-Netscape working for you ? >> Here both versions (4.07 and 45) freeze my system completely on exit ! >> No keyboard response, no panic . > > I had (almost) precisely this problem back in August when running > the pre-BETA SNAP releases. I attributed it to non-specific VM bugs > that the FreeBSD developers were vaguely aware of and didn't want > to hear any more about (short of an explanation and a fix). > > The symptoms eventually went away (sometime in September I believe) > and I hoped they were gone for good. I feel a little awkward complaining > about a vague symptom (e.g. system frequently locks up after running > Netscape) that I am not prepared to debug myself. Unfortunately, > Netscape is such an important application that I can't recommend > FreeBSD to anyone else unless it runs Netscape. I am grateful > the the problem seems to be gone. > > I just tested both Netscape 4.06 FreeBSD and Linux 2.0 binaries, and > they seemed to work just fine. I am running 3.0-19981031-SNAP on this > machine. > > I recall one previous email that implicated the USER_LDT kernel > config option in other netscape problems and another that reported > problems when running netscape after wine (which supposedly requires > the USER_LDT kernel config option). I build my kernels with the > USER_LDT option. > > Dan Strick > dan@math.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------- With a current system from today (Mon Nov 9) all my problems with netscape went away. FBSD-netscape 4.07-navigator and 4.5-communicator are working fine also with nfs-homed users. It seems that changes in the system sources cured my problems. Attached is a list of changes between Nov 6 and Nov 9 (from my cvsup-logfile). 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