From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 17:52:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04387 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dog.farm.org (gw-hssi-2.farm.org [209.66.103.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04378 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dog.farm.org!dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id RAA26833; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:56:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:56:57 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199711180156.RAA26833@dog.farm.org> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.04 Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with it? As with 4.03b8, I > occasionally had problems with it hanging on exit. I thought I > would make sure there wasn't anything around from older versions > causing problems so I moved my ~/.netscape directory out of the > way. I have the same problem (run once, than have it spinning in a loop consuming lots of CPU with no graphic output). solution (kludgy, but works): #!/bin/sh export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null exec /usr/local/communicator/netscape $@ I got this info forwarded to somebody inside Netscape so hopefully they would fix it some day. -- I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.