From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 27 14:16:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00808 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:16:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00802 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA14554; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:45:56 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971028084556.01524@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:45:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Rich Ullery Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape/Mosaic Broken References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Rich Ullery on Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 07:03:20AM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 07:03:20AM -0800, Rich Ullery wrote: > > Hello- > After working flawlessly I have a problem. > > Both Netscape and Mosaic when started lock up and netscape washes out > (the whole window turns flat grey), Mosaic just sits trying to connect. > I have not a clue what might have happened. > > a couple days ago I tryed to install the Gimp I kept getting errors so I > had a friend (Linux guy) try. He had done it successfully on his Linux > system. But he failed also. He removed the install till I could get futher > help. Now After this took place Netscape worked great for 1 1/2 days. So I > dont think he removed or changed anything to make it happen. > I JUST DONT KNOW>>>>>AAAARRRGGG! > > 2.2-stable is whats on here and Im running Afterstep. > Iv tryed bringing the colordepth to 16 (Was in 24) with no change. At a guess this could be a DNS problem. How long did you wait? Which version of Netscape did you use? Does chimera show the same problems? Greg