PLEASE READ this quoted message below and advise if you would. Thanks! -Jon
> Hello all,
>
> I had been using Netscape 4.7-2 extensively on RHL6.x and it appeared to cache
> and pickup from disk quite a bit. Even after I cleared netscape disk and
> mem cache. Linux (per top) was using about 2/3's my swap partition, so I
> exited netscape and all my apps, shutdown, and it hung on something after [ok]
> closing squid. I finally had to cold boot (ug!) and it came up, cleaned the
> disks, I rebooted again, and all came up clean.
>
> But now I get the following when I load netscape (which does come up, but I'm
> pretty sure I never got a Z <defunct> entry for netscape before. (1) Any
> ideas what this is and how to fix????
>
> 1233 ? S 0:04 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator
>-irix-session
> 1245 ? Z 0:00 [netscape-commun <defunct>]
>
> Also, even more severe, I'd say, is my perfectly working StarOffice 5.1a (SUN)
> has stopped opening any files for me, ie. when I to file/open or when I go
> through worplace, and into the directory/files, and double click or right click
> and do open !!! Just does nothing!!! What on earth happened??? I think this
> started before I shutdown (as described above) which is another reason I
> decided to shutdown. Each time I try to load a message in SOffice I see thise
> "can't update from XX to X" messages in my message file -> see below...
>
> Feb 6 10:00:01 boaz PAM_pwdb[1270]: (su) session opened for user news by
> (uid=0) Feb 6 10:00:01 boaz PAM_pwdb[1270]: (su) session closed for user news
> Feb 6 10:00:25 boaz kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 56 to 0
> Feb 6 10:01:01 boaz PAM_pwdb[1309]: (su) session opened for user news by (uid=0)
> Feb 6 10:01:01 boaz PAM_pwdb[1309]: (su) session closed for user news
> Feb 6 10:01:26 boaz kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 57 to 1
> Feb 6 10:02:27 boaz kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 58 to 2
> Feb 6 10:03:28 boaz kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 59 to 3
>
> (2) Any ideas what this message and SO51a problem is and how to fix????
>
> (3) One more thing, I notice that the more I use RHL6.x I am finding it starts
> to use up all its memory, and doesn't clear things from swap, and seems like
> eventually I have to reboot to clear memory. Is there a problem with the
> kernel handling used memory, or cleaning it up???? k2.2.5-15 I use VMWare
> 1.03 on occasion, and that takes up memory too, but when I close it, Linux does
> not seem to get the memory back??? App or Kernel/OS issue???
>
> This is the first I've seen preblems (1) and (2), but (3) seems to happen
> always.
>
> THANKS
> -Jon
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