Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I've found that Netscape 4.03 and 4.04 crash, as soon as I click
> anything or type anything into the window. They crash with a SIGSEGV.
> Other X events, like simply redrawing the screen, are fine. OTOH, after
> a time delay, the programs crash anyway. It looks like the crash occurs
> when Netscape tries to fetch the first web page (be it a local file or
> some remote thing).
>
> Netscape 3.04 is fine, as are every other program I've used so far.
>
> I can't `strace' the processes properly, and GDB doesn't catch them
> either. I suspect they use threads with shared pids or something.
> However I did attach to the process, and find the SEGV occurs during a
> `select' call, shortly after opening and dup'ing various file
> descriptors.
>
> Who knows what's going on...
>
> I don't know if this problem occurs with older 2.1.x kernels -- I don't
> have tons of them lying around. I haven't found the early 2.1.7x ones
> to be stable enough to try this.
>
> I've tried libc-5.4.38 (which is what I'm using for everything else),
> and libc-5.4.33 (which comes with some version of the netscape wrapper
> RPM).
>
> They work fine with 2.0.30.
>
> -- Jamie