From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 23:53:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA23453 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA23448 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29109 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10433; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:53:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: mark thompson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: netscape beta 8 In-Reply-To: <19971011140830.14005.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 11 Oct 1997, mark thompson wrote: > Dear folks, > > I have installed netscape beta 8 for freebsd on my 2.2.1 system (with > the latest xfree86 3.3.1). It seems to start once, but the second time > that it it started in a single X session it seems to go into an endless > loop thing, chewing time and displaying nothing. A scan of the -current mail archives reveals the following... Date: Tue, 23 Sep 97 14:56:31 EDT From: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen) To: roberto@eurocontrol.fr, thyerm@box.net.au Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.03b8 doesn't work after poll/select changes Try adding this line to /usr/local/bin/netscape, export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null XF86 3.3.x uses CMS to do color lookup, and because of some FPE related bugs it would go into an infinite loop. Disable the CMS lookup seems to circumvent this problem, but it might surface later at some other part of the code. -lq Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major