From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 4 13:07:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23918 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (ken@mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23913 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15894; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:06:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199708042006.OAA15894@pluto.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: Netscape & floating point core dumps? In-Reply-To: <199708041914.PAA02304@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Aug 4, 97 03:14:00 pm" To: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:06:49 -0600 (MDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just curious - has anyone figured out why Netscape 4.01b6 > dumps core all the time, with a floating point exception? > > Here's what I understand: > > 1) Someone said it wasn't particular to FreeBSD, > that 4.01b6 has the same problem on BSDI. > > 2) There is a kernel change that has been suggested > in this forum - does it work; or is it not helpful? I'm not sure of the reason behind that problem, or of the workaround for it. I just used the Linux Netscape binary. It works fine under -current at least. (probably works under 2.2.2 as well, I dunno for sure.) > 3) I've seen one mention of 4.01b7 - but I can't actually > find it at ftp.netscape.com - is this available yet? Look on ftp23.netscape.com. It hasn't made it out to all of their other ftp servers yet. So far, it seems to be pretty stable. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@gt.ed.net