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To: Brian Sletten <bsletten@autometric.com>
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Subject: Re: Mondo Weirdness 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:10:58 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:26:09 -0700
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>But, somehow in the process of getting those last two things working, other
>bizarreness has surfaced:
>
>1) I can no longer su. I could before. I added myself to 'wheel'. Now, under X,
>when I try, it hangs. When at the console, su core dumps.
>
>2) When making gtk and gimp, the make kept on dying because of internal compiler
>errors (gcc 2.7.2). Upon retyping 'make', it would proceed on happily until the
>next time it died (seemingly) randomly. Eventually, gtk and gimp were
>successfully built.
>
>3) Netscape dies every time I run it. It complains about the missing NLS config
>files. I have searched the archives and read all the reports about people's
>shell scripts that export XNLSPATH, I've snagged the uudecoded nls directories
>and installed them, repointed XNLSPATH, etc. Nothing seems to work. I run it. It
>dies. This is the case w/ both the port distributed w/ the CD (from Mr. Lehey's
>book), and the 4.5 beta from Netscape itself.
>
>Any ideas on any of this?

   Seems like your hardware has problems. Sounds a like what you'd see with
an overclocked CPU, bad cache, or bad memory.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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