From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 3:55:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D23A37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:55:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26258 invoked by uid 100); 16 Jun 2001 10:55:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15147.15159.703254.511258@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 05:55:51 -0500 To: dev-null@no-id.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 4.76 reboots system? In-Reply-To: <48756460@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dev-null@no-id.com types: > Hello > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-R with XFree86 4.1.0 (newest version for the i815 chipset support) with KDE with Netscape Navigator 4.76. > > At random intervals while using X, my system freezes completely and either exits X or reboots the entire system. I've noticed that it happens after I've been surfing with Netscape for a while. At other times the kernel panics. > > Am I right in assuming that some bug(s) in Netscape could reboot my system? Or am I looking in the wrong direction? Netscape is certainly buggy. Unless you're running it as root, it shouldn't be able to reboot your system. It shouldn't be able to cause X to exit, either, but that should be addressed by the XFree86 group, though they may send it back to FreeBSD with more information. Have you tried doing anything to debug the reboots? Looking for panic messages? Arranging to get core images of the system? etc? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message