On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:34:34AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:13:56PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > > > > > > So the people who don't see crashes, which version of Netscape are you > > > using? > > > Do you use java successfully in Netscape? Do you have plugger installed? > > > Do > > > you have any other plugins installed? Which versions of libc are you > > > using? > > > > I haven't had any problem with navigator versions 4.07 and 4.6, as well > > as communicator 4.08. I did have a problem with 4.51 crashing, however. > > I have used java and plugger. I think I had libc6 (2.0.x) with 4.07 and > > have use both 2.0 and 2.1 with 4.08 and 4.6. > > I have been having the "Netscape crashes with bus error when a window is > closed" problem for some time now. My system is up-to-date with potato. > Last week, I decided to test this problem with every 'navigator-smotif-*' > package. Every navigator-smotif-* package in slink and potato (that's > versions 4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.5 and 4.6) was affected. > > BTW, this crash happens both when I hit the 'close window' button and when > I hit the 'Close' option in the 'File' menu. But it doesn't happen every > time I do this. My impression is that it even has begun to happen less > often, recently.
I knew that by posting my reply earlier I could force netscape to crash. It did a little while ago with a signal 11 error. IIRC, this is usually a hardware error. I wonder if it is related to the bus error problem? potato, kernel 2.2.9, navigator 4.6 (smotif). Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
