From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 25 10: 2:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41C714C3F for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA03293 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:02:19 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03291; Thu Mar 25 10:02:00 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA21362 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:01:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903251801.KAA21362@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdv21359; Thu Mar 25 10:01:58 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cschuber To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape Looping Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:01:58 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an interesting problem where Netscape loops during startup. It loops getting a number of FPE signals, two ALRM signals, it issues a gettimeofday(), and it loops again. It is reproducible under very specific circumstances. To give you some background I will discuss what works first and what doesn't work last. All machines are running 3.1-RELEASE ELF with a.out compatibility libraries.. Netscape in question is 4.07 and 4.08 for FreeBSD. Configuration W (at work): A single machine with a PII, 128MB RAM, and a Mach64 card. This configuration works with no problems. This machine was built using make aout-to-elf. Configuraion H (at home): Machine A ------ Ethernet through attic ------- Machine B ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ P120 486DX/33 80MB RAM 20MB RAM S3 Card Trident SVGA Machine A was built using make aout-to-elf. Machine B was installed from CDROM. Netscape running on Machine B and displayed to an XServer on machine B works. Netscape running on Machine A and displayed to Machine B works. Netscape running on Machine B and displayed to Machine A works. Netscape running on Machine A and displayed to Machine A loops forever. Another interesting observation is that when using an Xserver on the Configuration H machine at work or when using an Xserver on Machine B at home vmstat reports AVM as some normal number, e.g. 3000 KB or more, while using an Xserver on Machine A at home vmstat reports that AVM is a little more than 3700000 KB. AVM on Machine a drops to a normal value when the Xserver is not in use. Machine B uses X binaries served from Machine A via NFS, so except for a different XF86Config the X11R6 directory trees are the same. Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message