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From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
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To: werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de
Subject: RE: latest kernel breaks linux netscape.
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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

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