Re: Bus error in Netscape
On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote:
>
> > what I get:
> > bash-2.01$ netscape
> > Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user
> > mailcap file.
> > Warning:
> > Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
> >
> > Warning:
> > Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
> >
> > Bus error
> > bash-2.01$
> >
> > Anyone has any suggestions???
>
> Try starting it as root with:
>
> netscape --allow-root
>
> And see if it works.
Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write
into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it
to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system?
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