Netscape 6.1 runs as root: segmentation fault as user

[Eric Tittley]

Hi,

I had a problem running Netscape 6.x on a Slackware-based system.
At the same time, I've had no problem on a RedHat-based system.

The problem has the symptom of netscape running just fine as root,
but not at all as a user.

It fails with the error: (which I add to help people search the
newsgroups)
>/usr/local/netscape6/netscape 
/usr/local/netscape6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/netscape6/mozilla-bin
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/netscape6
 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/netscape6/Cool:/usr/local/netscape6:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11/lib
          LIBPATH=/usr/local/netscape6:/usr/local/netscape6/Cool
       SHLIB_PATH=/usr/local/netscape6:/usr/local/netscape6/Cool
      XPCS_HOME=/usr/local/netscape6/Cool
      MOZ_PROGRAM=/usr/local/netscape6/mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
/usr/local/netscape6/mozilla-bin
 I am inside the initialize
 Hey : You are in QFA Startup 
/usr/local/netscape6/run-mozilla.sh: line 73: 10476 Segmentation
fault      $prog ${1+"$@"}

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The solution that I found is to make /dev/zero world-writable.
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This is the default for RedHat installations, but not for
Slackware.

>From what I read on the newsgroups, this is a problem that many
people have had, but no solutions were given.  I hope
this helps others.

Cheers,
Eric Tittley