Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-24 Thread Alex Varju
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > But this didn't solve the crash at exit. But... > rm -rf /usr/lib/compat/* > cd /usr/src/lib/compat/compat22/ > make all install clean > cd ../compat3x.i386/ > make all install clean > solved this for me (YMMV). After doing this, I notic

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 22 Feb, Steve Hocking wrote: > There was some discussion of this over on the XFree mailing lists, and it > transpired that netscape was using a pointer to some memory that had been > freed some time back. This showed up in cases where you open up a stack of > windows and then close them at r

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Donn Miller
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:16:00AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > > I can give you the .mozconfig file I used to successfully build Mozilla > > on -current. > > Patches to make the port compile on Current? :-) Well, I've been checking out the source cod

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:16:00AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > I can give you the .mozconfig file I used to successfully build Mozilla > on -current. Patches to make the port compile on Current? :-) -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23-Feb-00 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Well, Alexander Leidinger's suggestion of disabling Javascript seems to > help. I disabled both JavaScript and Style Sheets (in the "advanced" > preferences menu) and in relatively limited testing, Slashdot didn't crash > Netscape for me. If you login

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 23:42:56 -0800, William R. Somsky wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:50:46 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which > > > cause

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread William R. Somsky
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:50:46 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which > > causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out >

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Steve Hocking
There was some discussion of this over on the XFree mailing lists, and it transpired that netscape was using a pointer to some memory that had been freed some time back. This showed up in cases where you open up a stack of windows and then close them at random. There was a patch to work around

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Alex
I will try this and see if it helps. Cheers, Alex On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 06:56:41PM -0500, Bryan Liesner wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Alex Le Heux wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on > >Netscape? > > > >It's been going on for quite some

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Donn Miller
Martin Cracauer wrote: > BTW, does anyone know if its possible to write a plugin for the BSDI > version of Navigator 3.04 so that it display *.png files as it > displays *.gif files now? > > As I understand, a plugin doesn't have fine enough access to the > display code to do this, right? You c

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-22 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Le Heux wrote: > Hi, > > Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on > Netscape? This made a real difference in stability for me: Before installing a new Netscape, rm -rf /usr/local/lib/netscape rm -rf /home/*/.netscape Seriously, when I had

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Nowlin
> You may want to try upgrading your linux libraries... they may be old... I > don't have these problems though... Netscape rarely crashes for me. Me and one of my friends got really sick of this problem one weekend a few months ago (under Linux), and decided to figure out what was blowing up...

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Steve Coltrin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bryan Liesner writes: >Netscape would always crash on me when loading a java applet - I found >that if you define both the scaled and unscaled fonts in XF86Config as >below that all the java related crashes go away. >Section "Files" > RgbPath"/usr/X11R6/l

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Don Lewis
On Feb 21, 7:51pm, Alex Le Heux wrote: } Subject: Crashing netscape? } Hi, } } Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on } Netscape? } } It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or } switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI ver

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Bryan Liesner
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Alex Le Heux wrote: >Hi, > >Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on >Netscape? > >It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or >switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI version doesn't help. >The most stable

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, I've found that /. can be very reliably be surfed with the web-board included in the KDE file manager (KFM - at least for my present 1.1.2 release) TfH Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On 21 Feb, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > >> It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about font

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > :It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which > :causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out > :when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. > : > :It still crashes or wedges for me a lot, though. I tr

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 21 Feb, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >> It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which >> causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out >> when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. >> >> It still crashes or we

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Alex Le Heux
My limits are quite high I thinkL z:~ $ limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kb datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb coredumpsize infinity kb memoryuseinfinity kb memorylocked infinity kb ma

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:50:46 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which > causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out > when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. > >

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which :causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out :when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. : :It still crashes or wedges for me a lot, though. I tried mozilla, a

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
It crashes for me a lot. There's some deal about fonts, oddly enough, which causes it to crash right away- see the installation instructions that come out when you install communicator-47- it said something about mkfontdir. It still crashes or wedges for me a lot, though. I tried mozilla, and th

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
You may want to try upgrading your linux libraries... they may be old... I don't have these problems though... Netscape rarely crashes for me. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around.| | Unix Systems Admini

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Will Saxon
You arent the only one, I have tried nestcape 4.08 and 4.7 navigator and both exit on signal 10 and coredump quite often. It happens in the middle of page rendering and also everytime I try to close the application (rare since I hardly ever get the chance to do that myself). I dont know why it do

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alex Le Heux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000221 11:25] wrote: > Hi, > > Am I the only one who's experiencing an amzing amount of crashes on > Netscape? > > It's been going on for quite some time now (months), upgrading Netscape or > switching from the Linux to the FreeBSD to the BSDI version doesn't