Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.snybuf.edu> To: Michael Brady <brady@brady.appliedtheory.com> Cc: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@rush.aero.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970813182117.11003A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu> In-Reply-To: <33F1B44F.140BF509@brady.appliedtheory.com>
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I was able to reproduce this in -stable. I hadn't tried shutting it down with an applet running before. On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Michael Brady wrote: > Mike O'Brien wrote: > > > I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b<whatever> > > seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit. > > > > However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't > > happen every time, just 2/3 of the time. This Is Not Good. > > This happens on my workstation too (I'm running 2.2.2, 40MB) when Netscape > exits (never when it opens). It only happens when Java was loaded onto the > browser to view pages with applets. All the windows close, yet the process > remains and absorbs all the cpu in an infinite RUN state. The only way to kill > it is with a kill -9. It sucks. > > I'm going to try a ktrace the next time it happens to see whats going on. >
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