Bug 31698
Summary: | netscape crashes on startup | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <clambin> |
Component: | netscape | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | rod, rvokal |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-08-07 15:43:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-03-13 17:17:27 UTC
Does it persist if you run 'LANG=C netscape'? Yes: the problem is exactly the same, as is the stack trace. I've the same probleme: version 4.76 and 4.77 of netscape ALWAYS crash, either on RH L 7.0 or RH L 7.1 version 4.75 nevers crash (RH 7.0 or RH 7.1). the 4.75 package from RH 7.0 works perfectly on RH 7.1 I've got a "Cyrix P200+", may be there's a probleme with that. I saw some applications that can't work on Cyrix generating a "Bus Error". (Netscape is the only application where I have a bus error, so that's probably not a hardware faillure...) One more datapoint: Netscape crashed on startup for me, then I removed .netscape and it crashes one step later - goto groups.google.com, "innxmit RedHat", <enter>, bang... RH 7.1, netscape 4.76, didn't try 4.77 yet. In my case LANG=C _does_ help (I use LANG=sk_SK normally, without any other locale variables set). I've got the problem too, and can demonstrate it. If someone from Red Hat will contact me, I can offer an account where you can connect with VNC and see the problem for yourself. Also I have an earlier version of my root filesystem that I can boot up and the problem does NOT occur. The difference is mostly that the failing system has seen some more configuration work, and is running Apache, Courier IMAP and Postfix. Both are using the same kernel and glibc, and environment setups seem to be the same. More specifically, the problem I see is: $ netscape netscape-communicator: locale `en_US' not supported by Xlib; tryping `C'. netscape-communicator: locale `C' not supported either. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? Bus error (core dumped) $ Of course "LANG=C" does not help. -- Rod rod Unfortunately, crashes like this indicate problems in the core netscape code, which we really can't fix, as we don't have access to it. Reporting it to netscape may be more fruitful. We can't reproduce these crashes here in our testing. |