Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:30:48 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Excessive crashing of Netscape? Message-ID: <XFMail.980207064415.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just installed Netscape (Communicator 4.04, the dynamically-linked FreeBSD binary version) from the ports tree. Unfortunately, I am having some problems with it. On the whole, it seems to work ok; however, sometimes the program dies (for no apparent reason) with a SIGBUS. Also, it locks up a lot. The lock up is complete (the little "meteor shower" stops showering, and the process can't be killed - I have to use a 'kill -KILL' to get rid of it). These things don't happen regularly -- I can be using Netscape perfectly for hours and hours (my last Netscape process was running for over five days before it went belly-up), and it crashes/hangs through different actions (i.e. there is not one single set of actions that I can isolate that cause it to die). My system is a P133 with 32MB EDO RAM and 3.2GB disk, running 2.2.5-RELEASE (a clean install). Is anyone else having this problem with Netscape? Does the Linux version work better? Any ideas what might be going wrong here? Please cc: the response to me in email if possible. Thanks! - -Donald (who can't wait until netscape releases its source code, so that we can start squashing these nasties and make netscape a better program) - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNNxzP/jpixuAwagxAQEeHgP/UHUo0t5XMbVhuwg/isdJnPYuFky4SkO9 ryPl8Dxh4LdoRgtw8cX0GqQoX3KRup2Y0sdcoE+PLMySYGv18+lmXabQFKW1je8c hS/m+NJLP5wRqC4xVNcQ7kIzCZIHWxcX+gg20R5pLUxjLSwMQDMkXKuXU5Ccglql nMZeqLeWz/I= =QUtW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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