Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-02-04 Thread Reginald S. Perry
I finally got everything set up as far as having my vt220 being my console and being able to drop into DDB by hitting the break key. It turns out that as part of my setup I was using MFS for /tmp. When I did a CVSup and make world on the 29th, I decided to comment out the MFS mount point. I have

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:46:18 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Yer kidding right? A program that _needs_ 100 MB or more? Surely yer kidding... I haven't seen a program in normal corporate/home use that justifies the memory usage of 100 MB or more including NetScape's

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:46:18 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Yer kidding right? A program that _needs_ 100 MB or more? Surely yer kidding... I haven't seen a program in normal corporate/home use that justifies the memory usage of 100 MB

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: I still don't think we're getting any closer to the question Why is Netscape unstable on CURRENT when it worked fine for me on STABLE? The problem seems to be that those who know

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:02:31AM -0600, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: If you have Netscape problems, it would be worthwhile to try removing -DVM_STACK from src/sys/compile/BLAH/Makefile and doing a make clean all install. I am pretty certain this is the cause of Netscape crashing, at least

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 10:20:14AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: I still don't think we're getting any closer to the question Why is Netscape unstable on CURRENT when it worked fine for me on

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Parag Patel
Just another data point. I just updated my 2xPII/300 system to 4.0-CURRENT last night (Tues Jan 26), and I'm running Netscape 4.5 just fine - no crashes od any odd behavior at all. VM_STACK is defined, I have 256Mb RAM, and 256Mb swap (which is currently untouched since the reboot) striped

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Parag Patel wrote: Just another data point. I just updated my 2xPII/300 system to 4.0-CURRENT last night (Tues Jan 26), and I'm running Netscape 4.5 just fine - no crashes od any odd behavior at all. VM_STACK is defined, I have 256Mb RAM, and

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Reginald S. Perry wrote: I have been having these X lockups with the linux netscape 4.5 running. I may have exacerbated it when I installed the linux realplayer and macromedia flash plugins. I would like to have a methodology to help debug this, but I have just this

RE: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-26 Thread paul
-Original Message- From: Reginald S. Perry [mailto:pe...@zso.dec.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:35 AM To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Andrew Gordon; curr...@freebsd.org; Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system I have been having these X lockups

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:21:16PM -0800, Amancio Hasty ha...@rah.star-gate.com wrote: http://www.developer.com/experts/expertspanel.html click on Bar's Guide to the the Interactive Fiction and after the page finishes loading click Back on Netscape's tool bar. Instant core -dump. You

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Amancio Hasty
I think this is the first step to show the bug . The next step is to pray that the netscape developer is listening so he can fix it . I think is odd that the bug doesn't happen with the linux version of netscape. Cheers, Amancio On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:21:16PM -0800,

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I've a feeling that somewhere there is a memory problem. Netscape-specific perhaps, but I suspect otherwise due to what I've seen. For example: the one machine that I have which will constantly dump core when Netscape is run is an HP Vectra. I've tried 3.0, 2.2.8, all current patches, etc.

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Nate Williams writes: I am current as of today 4.0, I have communicator 4.5 downloaded some time ago (November more or less) directly from netscape and installed in /usr/local/netscape with a link to /usr/local/bin/netscape and I have been using it all day with no problems. My intranet if

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:28:10 GMT, Andrew Gordon wrote: One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With :datasize unlimited, Netscape eats all the available swap (this system is :64M real 128M swap) and kills the system that way. I currently run

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well over a year and have never had a

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Luke
Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to unlimited resources, my frequent netscape core dumps have gone away. I hadn't realized why until now. Suggestion: wwhen people complain about Netscape, ask them to mail us back the output of ``ulimit

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Forrest Aldrich
My setup is about the same. I just modified all my login.conf defaults to be unlimited/infinity. Still the same crappy core dumps. Forrest On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:47:29PM -0500, Luke wrote: Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Eugeny Kuzakov
Вы писали: Nate Williams writes: I am current as of today 4.0, I have communicator 4.5 downloaded some time ago (November more or less) directly from netscape and installed in /usr/local/netscape with a link to /usr/local/bin/netscape and I have been using it all day with no problems.

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 26-Jan-99 Andrew Gordon wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default :datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Reginald S. Perry
I have been having these X lockups with the linux netscape 4.5 running. I may have exacerbated it when I installed the linux realplayer and macromedia flash plugins. I would like to have a methodology to help debug this, but I have just this one system to use as the debug system. I do also have

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Baby Jane Hudson
I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following the development of Gzilla and Amaya. Of course, it would be immensely helpful if we knew what mysterious person within

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following the development of Gzilla and Amaya. Of course, it would be immensely helpful if we knew what mysterious person

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Luke
On 24-Jan-99 Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: I've given up on Netscape. On some FreeBSD-based machines I have, it just core dumps... on others it works. Nobody seems to know (or care) why, so I would suggest following the development of Gzilla and Amaya. Of course, it would be immensely

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of my system so much as once.

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread sthaug
I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of my system so much as

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Archie Cobbs
Jordan K. Hubbard writes: I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Amancio Hasty
http://www.developer.com/experts/expertspanel.html click on Bar's Guide to the the Interactive Fiction and after the page finishes loading click Back on Netscape's tool bar. Instant core -dump. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Nate Williams
I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of my system so much

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Edwin Culp
Nate Williams wrote: I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-24 Thread Nate Williams
I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and has never crashed any of my