Re: netscape, slink, bus error
Rick Venable wrote:
>
> Since I've been having a similar "bus error" with netscape (4.06, 4.07,
> 4.08, 4.5) I tried the libs supplied via the above URL-- it didn't work.
>
> I tried the unsupported libc6 version of 4.08 as well-- it didn't work.
>
> I also tried to get netscape via the slink distro at ftp.debian.org, but
> the 4.07 package there still lacked the binary, contrary to reports that
> "slink has a full netscape package".
You need to look harder. :-) The packages holding the NS binaries have
'-smotif' or '-dmotif' in their names and are found in non-free/web section. I
responded to an earlier question this way:
The netscape-xxx are the base files for both communicator and
navigator. The navigator-xxx files are for the stand alone browser.
Communicator is the browser/mail/newsgroup version. I'm running
communicator-4.5, and have the following packages loaded:
netscape-base-4 necessary
netscape-base-45 necessary
netscape-java-45 For Java capability (I'd get it)
communicator-base-45 necessary
communicator-nethelp-45 help file (optional)
communicator-spellchk-45 if you want the spelling checker
communicator-smotif-45 Statically linked (Motif) NS binary
> I've had a very frustrating couple of weeks trying to get netscape
> working under slink, without any success. Basically, I get a 'locale'
> error message, the License dialog pops up, and a few seconds after I
> click on "Accept", I get the inevitable "bus error". Here's the locale
> message:
>
> netscape: locale `C' not supported.
>
> If the $XNLSPATH directory does not contain the proper config files,
XNLSPATH isn't the problem (It was only suggested as a possible problem). The
locale problem (which I thought was solved a long time ago - did you recently
upgrade to slink?) occurs because of a missing /usr/lib/X11/locale directory.
Check this directory. If this isn't there (or its empty, or its a symlink) you
can get this locale directory from the xlib6g (part of X11) package
(3.3.2.3a-8.1). Confirm by checking for the existence of */locale/C/XLC_LOCALE
(this, IIRC, is what NS is looking for).
> ** janus [17] ldd netscape
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4004e000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40057000)
> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4006c000)
> libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4007e000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4008c000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40097000)
> libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40135000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40138000)
> libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x401f6000)
> libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4022e000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4025f000)
No lib problem.
>
> I'd really appreciate some help solving this problem, and TIA
--
Ed C.
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