From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 25 07:33:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25490 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA25478 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA24257; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:32:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA11197; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:32:59 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970625163258.20749@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:32:58 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Mr M P Searle Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli , bradh@iafrica.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.0b5 and XFree86 3.3 References: <3.0.2.32.19970625134607.010e4a94@scotty.masternet.it> <2623.199706251359@amaretto.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <2623.199706251359@amaretto.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; from Mr M P Searle on Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 02:59:30PM +0100 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jun 25, 1997 at 02:59:30PM +0100, Mr M P Searle wrote: > > At 08.24 25/06/97 +0200, Brad Hendrickse wrote: > > > > > > Hi there, I was just wondering whether anyone else has come across this: > > > > > > I find that Netscape 4.0b5 crashes with a signal 11 error message. > > >AFAIK, that means bad RAM or CPU or something. I know my hardware isn't > > >bad, it survived a coupl of "make worlds" a few days ago, but I've had > > >this problem wth Netscape for a while now. Is it a known problem with > > >Netscape, or is it my hardware? > > > > > > > I am using Xaccel 3.1 but I have the same troubles too.... I switched back > > to the old 3.01 , old but stable... > > > > Signal 11s can also be a bug in that program - it can mean bad hardware if > that program is known to not normally do it. The C compiler is such a program, > so if make world runs your hardware is probably OK. I wouldn't exactly > describe a beta Netscape as bug-free though. It segvs (signal 11) in various situations. It happened to me when left mouse selecting in the text area of the Mail window. I found that communicator 4.0b5 has the same bug (?) as netscape 301 when clicking the NetSearch button - Floating Exception (signal 8). Strangely this only happened on > 2.2 systems (?!). (I learned that netscape/java had a bug in string-> number conversion of things like: which would be the cause for choking on the Netsearch button. This still seems to be the case in communicator 40b5. > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de