Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:33:11 +0100 (MET) From: Werner Griessl <werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> To: (Dan Strick) <dan@math.berkeley.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: latest kernel breaks linux netscape. Message-ID: <XFMail.981109133311.werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> In-Reply-To: <199811062045.MAA18819@math.berkeley.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 06-Nov-98 Dan Strick wrote: >> Is the FBSD-Netscape working for you ? >> Here both versions (4.07 and 45) freeze my system completely on exit ! >> No keyboard response, no panic . > > I had (almost) precisely this problem back in August when running > the pre-BETA SNAP releases. I attributed it to non-specific VM bugs > that the FreeBSD developers were vaguely aware of and didn't want > to hear any more about (short of an explanation and a fix). > > The symptoms eventually went away (sometime in September I believe) > and I hoped they were gone for good. I feel a little awkward complaining > about a vague symptom (e.g. system frequently locks up after running > Netscape) that I am not prepared to debug myself. Unfortunately, > Netscape is such an important application that I can't recommend > FreeBSD to anyone else unless it runs Netscape. I am grateful > the the problem seems to be gone. > > I just tested both Netscape 4.06 FreeBSD and Linux 2.0 binaries, and > they seemed to work just fine. I am running 3.0-19981031-SNAP on this > machine. > > I recall one previous email that implicated the USER_LDT kernel > config option in other netscape problems and another that reported > problems when running netscape after wine (which supposedly requires > the USER_LDT kernel config option). I build my kernels with the > USER_LDT option. > > Dan Strick > dan@math.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------- With a current system from today (Mon Nov 9) all my problems with netscape went away. FBSD-netscape 4.07-navigator and 4.5-communicator are working fine also with nfs-homed users. It seems that changes in the system sources cured my problems. Attached is a list of changes between Nov 6 and Nov 9 (from my cvsup-logfile). Werner [-- Attachment #2 --] Add delta 1.135 98.11.08.13.05.30 brian Add delta 1.136 98.11.08.13.06.19 brian Edit src/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c Add delta 1.19 98.11.08.19.27.43 phk Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully Parsing supfile "/usr/cvsup/secure-supfile" Looking up address of cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org Connecting to cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org Connected to cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org Server software version: REL_15_4 Negotiating file attribute support Exchanging collection information Establishing active-mode data connection Running Updating collection src-crypto/cvs Updating collection src-eBones/cvs Updating collection src-secure/cvs Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully Delete src/sys/modules/ibcs2/ibcs2.c Edit src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes Edit src/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 Edit src/include/protocols/rwhod.h Edit src/lib/libc/gen/popen.3 Edit src/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2 Edit src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_cond.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/Makefile Edit src/lib/libfetch/common.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/common.h Edit src/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 Edit src/lib/libfetch/fetch.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/fetch.h Edit src/lib/libfetch/file.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/ftp.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/ftp.errors Edit src/lib/libfetch/http.c Edit src/lib/libfetch/http.errors Edit src/libexec/rtld-aout/rtld.c Edit src/release/Makefile Edit src/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.c Edit src/sbin/kldstat/kldstat.c Edit src/sbin/kldunload/kldunload.8 Edit src/sbin/kldunload/kldunload.c Edit src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/Makefile Edit src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/lnc.4 Edit src/share/mk/bsd.port.mk Edit src/share/mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk Edit src/share/syscons/fonts/Makefile Edit src/sys/alpha/alpha/clock.c Edit src/sys/alpha/alpha/clock_if.m Edit src/sys/alpha/alpha/mem.c Edit src/sys/alpha/conf/files.alpha Edit src/sys/boot/common/interp_forth.c Edit src/sys/boot/ficl/ficl.c Edit src/sys/boot/ficl/ficl.h Edit src/sys/boot/ficl/softwords/softcore.fr Edit src/sys/boot/ficl/words.c Edit src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile Edit src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot1.m4 Edit src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot1.s Edit src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c Edit src/sys/conf/files Edit src/sys/dev/dec/mcclock_if.m Edit src/sys/dev/iicbus/iicbb_if.m Edit src/sys/dev/iicbus/iicbus.c Edit src/sys/dev/iicbus/iicbus_if.m Edit src/sys/dev/ppbus/if_plip.c Edit src/sys/dev/smbus/smbus_if.m Edit src/sys/i386/conf/LINT Edit src/sys/i386/i386/mem.c Edit src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c Edit src/sys/i386/ibcs2/ibcs2_sysvec.c Edit src/sys/i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_drv.c Edit src/sys/i386/isa/snd/sound.c Edit src/sys/i386/isa/spigot.c Edit src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c Edit src/sys/isa/syscons.c Edit src/sys/kern/bus_if.m Edit src/sys/kern/device_if.m Edit src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c Edit src/sys/kern/link_elf.c Edit src/sys/kern/makedevops.pl Edit src/sys/kern/subr_xxx.c Edit src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c Edit src/sys/miscfs/devfs/devfsdefs.h Edit src/sys/modules/coff/Makefile Edit src/sys/modules/ibcs2/Makefile Edit src/sys/nfs/nfs_bio.c Edit src/sys/nfs/nfs_subs.c Edit src/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c Edit src/sys/pc98/conf/Makefile.pc98 Edit src/sys/pc98/conf/options.pc98 Edit src/sys/pc98/i386/machdep.c Edit src/sys/pc98/i386/userconfig.c Edit src/sys/pc98/pc98/syscons.c Edit src/sys/pci/brooktree848.c Edit src/sys/pci/bt848_i2c.c Edit src/sys/pci/meteor.c Edit src/sys/pci/pci_compat.c Edit src/sys/pci/xrpu.c Edit src/sys/sys/conf.h Edit src/sys/sys/mount.h Edit src/sys/vm/device_pager.c Edit src/usr.bin/Makefile Edit src/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 Edit src/usr.bin/fetch/main.c Edit src/usr.bin/w/w.c Edit src/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8 Edit src/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c Checkout src/lib/libfetch/fetch_err.et Checkout src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/rl.4 Checkout src/sys/isa/psm.c
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