-Truxton
Mike Harrelson <mikeh@mindspring.net> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> > Yep, something real weird going on. Here's one with netscape. It
> > locks up netscape 4.07 every time; I can't read slashdot ;-)
> >
> > Netscape gets into this loop, for no apparent reason. The signals are
> > coming at high speed, and netscape isn't responding to anything else:
> >
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 85701}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 136834}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 185730}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> >
> > [repeat...]
>
> I've seen this too on 2.0.35 running Netscape 4.05. A strace on the process
> produces output exactly like the above. My machine is a 486-66 with 32MB RAM,
> libc 5.4.46. Netscape becomes unresponsive and difficult to kill without a
> SIGKILL. It only happens occasionally, though, and doesn't seem to affect
> anything else.
>
> -- mikeh
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