[ale] netscape dies

[Paul D. Manno]

There's a known Java compile bug (as previously noted) with Netscape 3 and
4 that's documented on the Linux Java site www.blackdown.org Java HOWTO.

Those not wishing to upgrade the C libraries (and others) may want to 
consider installing a gnumalloc lib and then creating a "netscape" shell
script that sets LD_PRELOAD to this new library and then starting the real
executable image. Works great, less filling.

For current information, check out:

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/JDK-1.1.1/Howto-1.1.1/Java-Linux-1.1.1-Howto-4.html

-- Paul Manno

On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, james pancoast wrote:

}At 10:39 AM 6/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
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}>c_fowler at hotmail.com wrote:
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}>> 
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}>> Every so often when I get to an intensive web page, netscape just dies.  It is
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}>> like it kills itself and gives no error messages.  Does anyone else have this pr
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}>> oblem and know what it could be?
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}>Mine occasionally dies as well.  I haven't really noticed if it was due
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}>to an intensive web page.  I've load some pretty intensive stuff and it
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}>worked fine.  Don't have a clue what causes the problem.  As with you, I
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}>get no error messages.
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}This occasionally happens to me, too.  However, I get an error message most of the time.  I start up netscape through an xterm (I just type 'netscape &') the majority of the time, and whenever netscape crashes, I get an errormessage that mentions something about a 'bus error'.  Does this have anything to do with the libc problem?  It's not really that annoying to me, so I never worried too much about spending hours trying to figure out what was wrong and fix it.  I probably will fix it now, though, if libc is the problem.
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}Mulder, could you please explain to me the scientific nature of, 'the
}whammy'?
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}mailto:jamesp at area51.homecom.com; http://area51.homecom.com/
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