From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 15:23:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03048 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.buffalostate.edu (hummel@www.buffalostate.edu [136.183.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA03033 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hummel@localhost) by www.buffalostate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA11112; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:22:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel To: Michael Brady cc: "Mike O'Brien" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping? In-Reply-To: <33F1B44F.140BF509@brady.appliedtheory.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was able to reproduce this in -stable. I hadn't tried shutting it down with an applet running before. On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Michael Brady wrote: > Mike O'Brien wrote: > > > I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b > > seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit. > > > > However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't > > happen every time, just 2/3 of the time. This Is Not Good. > > This happens on my workstation too (I'm running 2.2.2, 40MB) when Netscape > exits (never when it opens). It only happens when Java was loaded onto the > browser to view pages with applets. All the windows close, yet the process > remains and absorbs all the cpu in an infinite RUN state. The only way to kill > it is with a kill -9. It sucks. > > I'm going to try a ktrace the next time it happens to see whats going on. >