Re: Bus error in Netscape

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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?
> >
> 
> Not dangerous at all. It will still not be allowed to write to kernel
> protected space (root is still a user). I have had this problem with the
> Netscape 4.6 on one of my systems, it will not run as a regular users
> (gets a bus error) but works fine as root.
> 
> This is the communicator-smotif. If I simply run the navigator portion, it
> works fine as a user. Communicator will only run as root for me on that
> system with is pretty much potato.
> 
> George Bonser
> 
> Welcome to Wit's End


	There's gotta be a problem here somewhere, George.  NS 4.6 works
flawlessly on my slink/potato sys, as did 4.51.  I do not run them
as root.  In fact, I've never seen a bus error from any version of
NS.  What are we doing different?


-- 
Ed C.