Re: Under the kernels 2.3.29 up, netscape dumps core

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:53:50 +0300 (MSK)

In <20000101033209.C1009@metastasis.f00f.org> Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org) wrote:
>> Since 2.3.29 up to 2.3.35, netscape (4.7) has been dumping core with
>> signal 7 when exitting. It indeed issues the message 'Bus error' under
>> 2.2.13 but dosen't dump core nor the kernels prior to 2.3.28 (at least
>> 2.3.20, 2.3.25, 2.3.27 and 2.3.28).

> where libc are you using?

And version of Netscape :-)

>> Is this due to some changes in the kernels post 2.3.29 ?

> I find netscape pretty flakey at times, very picky about libc
> (netscape with glibc-2.1.2 is almost unusable but with 2.0.7 fairly
> good)

Hmm. What version of netscape you are using ??? Version "for kernel 2.2"
from "unsupported" directory on Netscape's ftp works just fine for me with
glibc 2.1.2 ... I've not tested 4.71 yet, though...

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