I am using Netscape glibc 4.61 right now, quite unstable (window closing stuff). I have the lastests gnome using apt-get from cybertrails.com, as well as enlightenment. I update/dist-upgrade almost daily. I don't use gnome/kde/enlightenment, even though I have them installed. I use WindowMaker.
I don't really think it is a windowmanager/browser problem. I would rather a think the X server, or hardware. Yet, the kernel is working fine (I can ping), but the software on top is not running: ftpd and telnetd don't work. This freezing up is not a daily occurence for me; I have been up for 2 weeks before it froze (or I bumped the power cord :-p ) On 03-Aug-99 Raphael clancy wrote: > hmm sounds familliar, I had a very similar system, which would lock up > completly while using netscape (version 4.08-4.6). I found that upgrading > gnome from 1.0 to 1.06 fixed the problem. There are instructions on the gnome > website on how to add them to your sources list, then you can use apt to get > the newest version. > >>>> Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/03 1:14 AM >>> > Wim Kerkhoff wrote: >> >> I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no >> apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard >> control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del >> don't >> do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. >> >> What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via >> modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a >> win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it >> though, only ping and masq. >> >> I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. >> Where >> would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? >> >> I'm running: >> -Kernel 2.2.10 >> -Potato >> -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard > > I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or > 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I > also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and > an epox mobo. > > My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from > my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three > finger salute to my system. > > I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it > did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different > windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in > the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had > almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm > running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment > and gnome for X. > > So, I guess I'm trying to say is that you're not alone :) > -- --------------------------- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
