Re: Netscape startup hangs
Running your own DNS and pointing everything to it may help, and/or add
entries for those hosts that netscape tries to resolve to /etc/hosts
(never tried it but worth a shot). beyond that..what version of netscape
are you running? can you print out the contents of ps auxw | grep
netscape to show the full command line? mine is:
/usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator//communicator-smotif.real
nate
Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>
> That's exactly it! It doesn't happen until it realizes there's an
> interface, though, so if my dialup link is down, it doesn't happen, but if I
> introduce a network card into the mix, and gateway through that, then it
> grabs that interface and holds it hostage until it gets a DNS lookup.
>
> I am on 2.2, have been for a while. I downloaded the tarball from Netscape,
> though... 4.73 (with Java OFF, that is!)
>
> The problem is I only have the one phone line, and diald has always been
> troublesome, and I need Netscape for things like my wife's mail, and reading
> HTML, as well as configuring the crazy router itself!
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:27:54PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > I haven't been following this thread, so i gotta ask exactly where does
> > it hang? I have had many netscape hangs right after you click the first
> > time and it tries to load the "start" page. What happens in most cases
> > is netscape goes out to try to resolve 5 or 6 various domain
> > names(*.netscape.com stuff mostly) to test to make sure your DNS is
> > working, and it can hang there(sometimes for minutes). Even if your DNS
> > is working it still may hang, i suggest runnign strace on it to see.
> >
> > strace netscape
> >
> > i have had this kind of lockup for a loooong time, but i don't remember
> > it happening ever since i moved to debian 2.2, it uses a different
> > versionof netscape(static motif ? i think), the generic one from
> > netscape.com for linux(the versions ive tried) had this problem, but
> > when using the static motif version(also when using netscape for solaris
> > or IRIX) i never had the problem.
> >
> > nate
> >
> > Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> > >
> > > Nope, remember there's no startup page... the box is empty and the radio
> > > button says Blank page. I also tried with localhost in there.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> > > > Fire up netscape, go to edit>preferences. Select navigator. There should be an
> > > > option "Browser Starts With:" Set that to "Blank Page". You might have to restart
> > > > netscape for it to take effect, but you have to restart it anyway (you can go
> > > > file>new>browserwindow) to see if it worked.
>
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