I have had similar wierdness. Sometimes it was related to a plug in.
Removing the plug in using 'rm' would fix it. Sometimes the files in
~/.netscape got hosed. Removing the entire directory would fix that.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, root wrote:
> I came in this morning to find netscape broken on my
> workstation. Worked when I left on wednesday - broke when I
> came back today. The problem was that Netscape crashed
> completely and closed whenever I tried to open the mail
> client. The browser itself appeared ok. I'm running mdk 7.1
> and was running the original 4.73 version released with 7.1.
>
> I tried various things and eventually decided to upgrade to
> the most recent version of netscape released for 7.1
> (4.76-3.2mdk). After I finally got netscape-common and
> netscape-communicator installed (navigator gave conflicts
> with communicator plus I don't see why I need it if
> communicator is installed) I find I can only run it from in
> a terminal as root. I get a 'Bus Error' message when I try
> to run it as a normal user. Can anyone help me figure this
> out?
>
> Thanks.
