Steve Philp wrote:
>
> Hidong Kim wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just upgraded two machines running Mandrake 5.3 to kernel 2.2.9. One
> > of the machines has a single p166 and is running a up kernel, and the
> > other machine has dual pii 333s and is running an smp kernel. I
> > downloaded the netscape 4.6 tar.gz from the netscape site and installed
> > in on both machines. netscape 4.6 is running fine on the up machine,
> > but it has serious problems on the smp machine. On the smp machine, I
> > can start netscape 4.6, and the netscape home page comes up. But then,
> > if I click anywhere in the browser window, the entire screen locks up.
> > I can't access any other windows, or even other desktops. I have to
> > telnet to the smp machine from the up machine, and issue a kill -9 to
> > stop netscape. Before this upgrade, both machines were running kernel
> > 2.2.6 and netscape 4.08 fine. Also, netscape 4.6 has the same problems
> > running on my smp machine under kernel 2.2.6. Has anyone else seen
> > problems with netscape 4.6 on smp machines? And where can I get an rpm
> > for netscape 4.6? Thanks,
>
> It's not with 2.2.9 or 4.6, but I've suffered Netscape lockups here.
> Mine seem to be caused by the lack of network connectivity though. If
> I'm not dialed up, it locks. Consistently. It's probably the
> caching-nameserver and squid that's causing mine though. Something to
> keep in mind...
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Steve and Bob,
Indeed, there is a liveconnect bug in netscape 4.6 which may be causing
the problems I was seeing. When I established a ppp connection to the
Internet, I was able to run 4.6 ok. However I still think that smp may
be an issue here. On my smp machine, netscape 4.6 is a total lock-up
unless I have the ppp connection up. This means that I can't look at
local pages without the ppp connection. On my up machine, netscape 4.6
works fine whether or not the ppp connection is up. OK, thanks,
Hidong
