Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:15:13 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> Cc: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@jau.tmt.tele.fi>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd netscape-communicator-4.5 crash when clicking mailto-anchors Message-ID: <36A65571.9E30D22A@aei.ca> References: <199901201447.QAA00683@jau.tmt.tele.fi> <36A5EDE6.5644FF3E@tci.com>
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Chris Tubutis wrote: > > "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 And there are many more... My netscape 4.5 will not let mails on my server if I say him to do so. I loosed 3 day of mails like that... And netscape-mail crash a lot. I think I will move to another mail reader. -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] [French piss me off - Cartman, South Park][http://9.nws.net/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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