From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 6 2:36:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rj.sgi.com (rj.SGI.COM [204.94.215.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1994437B406 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yog-sothoth.sgi.com (eugate.neu.sgi.com [144.253.131.5]) by rj.sgi.com (8.11.4/8.11.4/linux-outbound_gateway-1.0) with ESMTP id f869aV530568; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 02:36:31 -0700 Received: from sgiger.munich.sgi.com (sgiger.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.2]) by yog-sothoth.sgi.com (980305.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam-europe) via SMTP id LAA40648; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:36:29 +0200 (CEST) mail_from (gwk@sgi.com) Received: from cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (cuckoo.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.109]) by sgiger.munich.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA23656; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:36:00 +0200 Received: from hunter.munich.sgi.com (hunter.munich.sgi.com [144.253.197.18]) by cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20306; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:35:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hunter.munich.sgi.com (localhost.munich.sgi.com [127.0.0.1]) by hunter.munich.sgi.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f869ZiG01955; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 11:35:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gwk@sgi.com) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:35:44 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" To: Steve Kargl Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux netscape hangs in -current In-Reply-To: <20010905155031.A82471@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20010905155031.A82471@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.4.1 (Stand By Me) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) Organization: SGI X-Attribution: gwk MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:50:31 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > Linux netscape appears to be having problems with > the kernel's linux compatibility module. > > troutmask:kargl[202] uname -a > FreeBSD troutmask.apl.washington.edu 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT\ > #0: Fri Jul 27 16:04:55 PDT 2001 > > World built on 27 Jul 01. > > troutmask:kargl[203] ps | grep comm > 82408 v0 R 4:37.11 /usr/local/lib/netscape-linux/communicator-linux-4.77 > 82413 v0 I 0:00.20 (dns helper) (communicator-lin) > troutmask:kargl[204] truss -p 82408 > gettimeofday(0x500b012c,0x0) = 2 (0x2) > linux_sigreturn(0x500b01ac) = 1 (0x1) > SIGNAL 14 > SIGNAL 14 > gettimeofday(0x500b012c,0x0) = 2 (0x2) > linux_sigreturn(0x500b01ac) = 1 (0x1) > SIGNAL 14 > SIGNAL 14 > > ad nausem > ^C I'm seeing the same with linux netscape 4.78 on a August 6th -current. Netscape starts hanging as soon as I try to load something complicated, e.g. animated gifs, JAVA applet, etc., and I have to kill -9 the process. It seems I can avoid the hang by running "netscape -synchronous" instead of just "netscape". I had learned about the -synchronous flag when I ran into trouble with FreeBSD-netscape / XFree86-4 a while ago: Without the -synchronous flag I would very soon get loads of error popups saying "Xlib: unexpected async reply" or some such. It seems "-synchronous" is becoming a magic spell for netscape. -- Regards, Georg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message