Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:53:26 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> To: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@jau.tmt.tele.fi> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd netscape-communicator-4.5 crash when clicking mailto-anchors Message-ID: <36A5EDE6.5644FF3E@tci.com> References: <199901201447.QAA00683@jau.tmt.tele.fi>
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"Jukka A. Ukkonen" wrote: > > Howdy! > > Has anyone else seen this happen with communicator-4.5 when > clicking mailto-anchors? > > 400 communicator-4.5 PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x9067b0 mask=0x0 code=0x0 > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL gettimeofday(0xefbfbb4c,0) > 400 communicator-4.5 RET gettimeofday 0 > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL sigreturn(0xefbfbbe8) > 400 communicator-4.5 RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN > 400 communicator-4.5 PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x9067b0 mask=0x0 code=0x0 > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL gettimeofday(0xefbfbacc,0) > 400 communicator-4.5 RET gettimeofday 0 > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL sigreturn(0xefbfbb68) > 400 communicator-4.5 RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN > 400 communicator-4.5 PSIG SIGSEGV caught handler=0x908620 mask=0x0 code=0xc > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL getpid > 400 communicator-4.5 RET getpid 400/0x190 > 400 communicator-4.5 CALL kill(0x190,0xa) > 400 communicator-4.5 PSIG SIGBUS SIG_DFL > 400 communicator-4.5 NAMI "communicator-4.5.core" > > First it gets a segmentation violation, tries to recover from > that one, and immediately (and rightfully) gets also a bus error. > > In general it is rather hard to recover from SIGSEGV, because > there is nothing much else to do, but a stack unwind, which > may fail, because the stack frames are already messed up. > So, the second SIGBUS is to be expected, but why does it generate > the SIGSEGV? > > Oops, I almost forgot this, but the binary is the one available > among 2.2.8 packages at ftp.freebsd.org. I did not compile it > locally myself. > > Any tips and ideas would be welcome. I think this is a known bug at Netscape - at least it is with the Solaris version. The workaround is to first open up the mail/news reader before clicking any mailto links. The number of bugs in Netscape is atrocious enough that I often use lynx for Web browsing. With AOL buying it, I don't know that the situation will get any better.... ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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