Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid & Fast! (solution... sort of)

[Peter Arien <peter.arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Here's a solution to the netscape bus error problems:

 http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html

I had _all_ the problems several people on the debian-user
list mentioned last month. I'm trying to follow the latest 
potato releases. Even got communicator 4.7 installed from 
there - it's not in the packages list yet but the debs are 
there. Still lots of netscape bus errors.

I installed the 'solution' from the above URL (with minor
modifications to the included script) and netscape became
much more stable.

Major point: it's not (only) a problem with glibc 2.0 or 2.1
but (also) with libXpm. I found another reference to libXpm
and the netscape bus errors on the SuSe website (with a search
on AltaVista [+netscape +"bus error"]).

HTH

Greetings

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Peter

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