Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:26:51 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Excessive crashing of Netscape? Message-ID: <34DECBDB.E2B90829@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <XFMail.980207064415.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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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 questions" in the body of the message
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