Re: Netscape broken with 2.2.0-pre7
Tygrys (tygrys@tygrys.eu.org)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:06:11 +0100
Tarun Reddy wrote:
>
> Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > On 16 Jan 1999, Truxton King Fulton II 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 ;-)
> >
> > I'm using 2.2.0pre7, and I use Netscape all the time. I've never seen
> > anything like that happen with my machine.
>
> There was a previous thread on this, specifically relating to the composer
> functionality of Netscape. I got same strace under 2.2.0pre7 as Truxton, but
> only when running Netscape against a home directory that was either an NFS
> mount or a symbolic link (in my case, /home/treddy -> /treddy/home/treddy).
> When running Netscape as root or under 2.0.36 kernels, the composer window
> opens fine.
Well I have the same problem with WordPerfect 8 (and kvirc since pre6),
but WordPerfect doesn't use symbolic links...
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