Re: Problems with Netscape Installation

Matthew J Brown (mjb@sophos.com)
Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:15:19 +0100


Cory Hill writes:
> Martin A. Rubio bored the masses when he said:
>
> : I am installing Netscape Navigator 3.0 beta 5 on my Linux 2.0.0, annd get
> : the following error when I try to run it after installation:
>
> : Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background.
>
> Are you by any chance using XV to put up fancy wallpaper?

Netscape always does this to me on the first running of a Java applet
in this invocation of the program. Absolutely 100% repeatable. (then
it generally crashes, but that's just shoddy software quality for you)

-Matt