From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 17 05:39:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13471 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:39:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA13465 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhh@ct.picker.com) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 8:38:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22330; Tue, 17 Mar 98 08:38:02 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09705; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:37:42 -0500 Message-Id: <19980317083742.27428@ct.picker.com> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:37:42 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list , garman@earthling.net, Ollivier Robert Subject: Re: netscape4 weirdness: what is happening here?? Mail-Followup-To: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD hackers list , garman@earthling.net, Ollivier Robert References: <199803161927.UAA01017@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803161927.UAA01017@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 08:27:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte: |I'm running Netscape 4 on my 2.2.5R box. Every now and then it refuses to |start properly. It just loops, consuming CPU. | | 979 netscape.bin CALL gettimeofday(0xefbfa4f0,0) | 979 netscape.bin RET gettimeofday 0 | 979 netscape.bin CALL sigreturn(0xefbfa5b8) | 979 netscape.bin RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN | 979 netscape.bin PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x76cdf8 mask=0x0 code=0x0 ... | |This repeats forever. FWIW this happens both with and without the ISDN/ppp |link to the Internet. Ollivier Robert: |export XCMSDB; XCMSDB=/dev/null garman@earthling.net: |More simply, every time this happened to me, I found that removing the line: | |user_pref("browser.startup.license_accepted", "1000 4.04"); FWIW I do both of these and still get this SIGALRM loop every so often. Seem to help but they doen't cure it. (I wonder if running Linux Netscape under emulation works better) Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message