Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:38:12 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, garman@earthling.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: netscape4 weirdness: what is happening here?? Message-ID: <199803202038.VAA07363@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980317083742.27428@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Mar 17, 98 08:37:42 am"
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As Randall Hopper wrote...
> Wilko Bulte:
> |I'm running Netscape 4 on my 2.2.5R box. Every now and then it refuses to
> |start properly. It just loops, consuming CPU.
> |
> | 979 netscape.bin CALL gettimeofday(0xefbfa4f0,0)
> | 979 netscape.bin RET gettimeofday 0
> | 979 netscape.bin CALL sigreturn(0xefbfa5b8)
> | 979 netscape.bin RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN
> | 979 netscape.bin PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x76cdf8 mask=0x0 code=0x0
> ...
> |
> |This repeats forever. FWIW this happens both with and without the ISDN/ppp
> |link to the Internet.
>
> Ollivier Robert:
> |export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null
>
> garman@earthling.net:
> |More simply, every time this happened to me, I found that removing the line:
> |
> |user_pref("browser.startup.license_accepted", "1000 4.04");
FWIW: the fix Ollivier suggested seems to do the trick for me.
Netscape seems to be a truly weird program. %-)
Wilko
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