On Friday 19 January 2001 14:37, you wrote:
> 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.
I can't really tell ya what is going there other than that's netscape. I
pesonnaly don't use the communicator I only install navigator. Installed in
this fashion I seem to have very infrequent Netscape hangs.
FWIW,
--
John W
