Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:01:58 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape Looping Message-ID: <199903251801.KAA21362@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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I have an interesting problem where Netscape loops during startup.
It loops getting a number of FPE signals, two ALRM signals, it
issues a gettimeofday(), and it loops again. It is reproducible
under very specific circumstances. To give you some background I
will discuss what works first and what doesn't work last.
All machines are running 3.1-RELEASE ELF with a.out compatibility
libraries.. Netscape in question is 4.07 and 4.08 for FreeBSD.
Configuration W (at work):
A single machine with a PII, 128MB RAM, and a Mach64 card. This
configuration works with no problems. This machine was built using
make aout-to-elf.
Configuraion H (at home):
Machine A ------ Ethernet through attic ------- Machine B
~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~
P120 486DX/33
80MB RAM 20MB RAM
S3 Card Trident SVGA
Machine A was built using make aout-to-elf. Machine B was
installed from CDROM.
Netscape running on Machine B and displayed to an XServer on
machine B works.
Netscape running on Machine A and displayed to Machine B works.
Netscape running on Machine B and displayed to Machine A works.
Netscape running on Machine A and displayed to Machine A loops
forever.
Another interesting observation is that when using an Xserver on
the Configuration H machine at work or when using an Xserver on
Machine B at home vmstat reports AVM as some normal number, e.g.
3000 KB or more, while using an Xserver on Machine A at home vmstat
reports that AVM is a little more than 3700000 KB. AVM on Machine
a drops to a normal value when the Xserver is not in use. Machine
B uses X binaries served from Machine A via NFS, so except for a
different XF86Config the X11R6 directory trees are the same.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca
Province of BC
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