Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > BTW, I am not sure it is a netscape bug. I think it is a libc bug. I did > not upgrade Netscape, I did upgrade about 50 other packages including libc > to 2.1. THe other system that has this problem also has glibc2.1 and NONE > of the systems with glibc2.0 have the problem

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-23 Thread Michelle Coelho
On Sun, 23 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > Edit the wrapper script to uncomment the allow root. > > You can find the wrapper script by following the symlinks. Start with > ls -l /etc/alternatives/netscape George, /etc/alternatives did not have a link, so I added one using ln -s /usr/X11R

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-23 Thread Michelle Coelho
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: > > > what I get: > > bash-2.01$ netscape > > Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user > > mailcap file. > > Warning: > > Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > > >

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > > Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write > > into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it > > to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system? > > > >

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Peter Allen
George Bonser wrote: > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > > Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write > > into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it > > to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system? > > > >

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > > Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write > > into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it > > to overwrite kernel memory and crash

Re: Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: > > > what I get: > > bash-2.01$ netscape > > Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user > > mailcap file. > > Warning: > > Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > > > >

Bus error in Netscape

1999-05-22 Thread Michelle Coelho
I have 16MB of swap space on the primary hard disk , /dev/hda (where / is mounted as well as the rest of the file systems) and 116MB of swap space on /dev/hdb. Actually, I had been using /dev/hda. Then when netscape gave me a bus error, I connected the second hard disk and ran cfdisk, and dedi