the bash 2.01 fix for Netscape 4.02 plugins: a mistake for me
I took the recommendations from several readers of this list to try
the bash_2.01 upgrade from the unstable tree to fix the problems I was
having with Netscape 4.0x not being able to use the plugins for
various files (.pdf, .ram, etc.).
I quickly realized I was not so brave as to simply install the binary
from the unstable tree as their were way to many dependency changes
that I did not want to make. So, I did try to compile the 2.01 bash
source with my present system. I found that this worked! Further all
the pluging features of Netscape 4.0x worked as well. I thought all
was well until...
I needed to reboot my system this morning, and it would not. I was
able to figure out it was failing in /etc/init.d/boot, which happened
to be the first utilization of /bin/sh which is linked to the new
/bin/bash. It took me a while to figure this out, but I basically put
back the old bash 2.00, and my system rebooted fine.
So, in my case, I will wait for the next stable release of Debian, and
I can do without Netscape 4.0x and use 3.01. In my personal opinion,
the 4.0x version is a memory hog, is much slower in many respects, and
generally not worth it at this point.
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