Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? Were you still running Netscape or had you exited when you deleted the file? Daniel

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Ah, that may be why. I was still running Netscape. In my mind, it shouldn't matter though... IE, AFAIK, doesn't work this way. On 03-Aug-99 Daniel Barclay wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 05:07:55PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: egm2@jps.net Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. It's not reliable here. I don't seem to have the window-closing problem you all are talking about, but it still hangs (100% CPU,

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? - p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. but i thought there were

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: egm2@jps.net Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. It's not reliable here. I don't seem to have the window-closing problem you all are talking about, but it still hangs (100% CPU, seemingly Java- related) and crashes. (On slink, glibc 2.0.7.) Daniel

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-26 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Marek Habersack wrote: * Philip Lehman said: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-26 Thread egm2
Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. I too can confirm the $ rm ~/.netscape method of temporarily fixing netscape-4.61 hangs (or whatever). But the most successful fix at the moment is $ dpkg --remove nestcape-smotif-4.6.1. ;-) -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread Gregg Berkholtz
Adam Shand wrote: Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread wim
I have found that the cookie file tends to loose new-lines for some of the entires and then when you attempt to access that site that has the line too long -- there goes netscape. Basicly what I mean is that you will get two sites (or more) that should each be on a seprate line in the

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread wim
Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? I have had the problem in Netscape Mail before, where you collapse the toolbars, but they won't un-collapse. Deleting

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-24 Thread Marek Habersack
* Philip Lehman said: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i haven't gotten it to crash on

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with an ever-growing number of

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Christian Lavoie
Original Message On 7/22/99, 9:56:55 PM, Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.: Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
- p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 - xfree 3.3.1 (vmware 3.3.1 server) sorry i'm dumb that would be 3.3.3.1. I've not noticed this behavior on closing any window BUT a navigator window. The bug seems to be common to navigator and communicator 4.5+ (yes, I've seen this

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? - p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Adam Shand
i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? - p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. but i thought there were several posts from people claiming that it worked just

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Matt Kopishke
I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. -Matt- ---++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.state.me.us | The mind is not

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? It's the glibc from unstable. but i thought there were several posts from people claiming that it worked just fine for them and

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Brad
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Matt Kopishke wrote: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i haven't gotten it to

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Matt Kopishke wrote: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
thomas lakofski wrote: Just to throw in some more controversy :-) I have always ran netscape glibc 2 versions. (with communicator 3.something, 4.5, .51 and .6) except maybe the communicator 3.something. I have never had a bus error, and I use netscape at least every day. BTW I am using

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-17 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6? I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier Netscapes. same thing happens to me with 4.51 and 4.08, both linked with glibc2. i think it's a glibc2.1

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-17 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all the time. well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the libc5 version. Nope. This poor,

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-17 Thread thomas lakofski
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6? I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier Netscapes. same thing happens to me with 4.51

Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Craig McPherson
I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread thomas lakofski
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Are any of the earier versions of Netscape more stable than 4.6? I'm willing to use whatever is stable. I haven't yet tried earlier Netscapes. same thing happens to me with 4.51 and 4.08, both linked with glibc2. i think it's a glibc2.1 issue.

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using glibc2.1, the best way would be - imho - either to use the libc5 version

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 02:38:43AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. since you´re using

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
thomas lakofski wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: anyone have libc5 debian packages for 4.08/51/6? get the files from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.08/english/unix/supported/linux20/ and use the debian installer. hafi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: i found 4.6.1 even more unstable than 4.08. at least i know that, if i don't close windows, 4.08 is unlikely to crash. 4.6 just died all the time. well, then it seems, that the poor glibc2.1 people should go to the libc5 version. hafi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
Yea, use the 4.08 version of Netscape. You might also try with statically linked motif (it's a bit bigger, but avoids shared library probs). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the A HREF=http://www.debian.org;POTATO/A!

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Craig McPherson wrote: I'm hoping that someone will be able to offer some advice on this, because it's annoying when a program crashes under Linux even more often than it crashes under Windows. I'm having trouble with netscape too. I've tried several things to get around the problem, but I

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig McPherson wrote: Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with a bus error. This usually happens when I close a Netscape window (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape window), which is painful because I have