Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:45:24 -0800 (PST) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) To: werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dan@math.berkeley.edu Subject: RE: latest kernel breaks linux netscape. Message-ID: <199811062045.MAA18819@math.berkeley.edu>
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> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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