Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:48:19 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Stephen Hocking <shocking@mailbox.uq.edu.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oddity with netscape and current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971206213712.15449C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712070237.MAA00763@zzshocki.dialin.uq.net.au>
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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > Also from the archives, adding this: > > > > export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null > > > > to the netscape startup script solved hang-on-start problem for [snip] > This appears to have done the trick. Nutscrape had been working fine > for me for ages though, which is why I was a little puzzled about it starting > to mess up after a src update. For the record, the problem which this solves/works-around exists in FreeBSD-2.2.5/XFree86-3.3.1 as well as (I gather) current (and what version of X?). I'm using a 16 bit display and have not tried it on 8 or 24. The reports on what works with what combinations of FreeBSD, Netscape, and X11 have been rather inconsistent--some curious methods of suppressing the symptoms have been discovered but does anyone have a clue about the problem? -john
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