Sorry, I wrote my previous reponse assuming this message was a CC copy.
When I
realized this message was a different one, it was too late, I had already sent
the other message.
Rick Venable wrote:
>
> I purged all my netscape stuff, and tried a clean install of 4.5 from
> the frozen slink distro at ftp.debian.org, and actually got the binary
> installed this time. Unfortunately, it still fails with a "bus error".
Hmmm, people did mention the bus error around the same time as the
xlib6g
mistake (no locale dir) triggered a lot of Netscape failures. Unfortunately, I
never saw the 'bus error', only the 'missing locale' problem. I assumed then
that the bus error was related somehow to the missing locale dir, even though I
personally never saw it.
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > XNLSPATH isn't the problem (It was only suggested as a
> > possible problem). The locale problem (which I thought was solved a
> > long time ago - did you recently upgrade to slink?) occurs because of
> > a missing /usr/lib/X11/locale directory. Check this directory. If
> > this isn't there (or its empty, or its a symlink) you can get this
> > locale directory from the xlib6g (part of X11) package (3.3.2.3a-8.1).
> > Confirm by checking for the existence of */locale/C/XLC_LOCALE (this,
> > IIRC, is what NS is looking for).
>
> /usr/lib/X11/locale is empty, but xlib6g (3.3.2.3a-8) is installed.
>
???
00:53am ~$ dpkg -L xlib6g
[snip]
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE
[snip]
Something is very wrong here. My version of xlib6g, (3.3.2.3a-8), is
the same
as yours. You *should* have a locale dir! Try downloading xlib6g manually and
using dpkg to install it.
--
Ed C.
