From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 21 01:19:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA16314 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 01:19:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA16309 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 01:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA18726 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Sat, 21 Mar 1998 10:19:42 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA07363; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:38:12 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199803202038.VAA07363@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: netscape4 weirdness: what is happening here?? In-Reply-To: <19980317083742.27428@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Mar 17, 98 08:37:42 am" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 21:38:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, garman@earthling.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message