Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 31698
netscape crashes on startup
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:19:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010203 After using it successfully for about a week, Netscape now crashes on startup: $ netscape-communicator Bus error (core dumped) It produces the following stack trace: #0 0x40237fb1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) where #0 0x40237fb1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x08940170 in PR_ClearPendingException () at eval.c:41 #2 <signal handler called> #3 0x0828118a in __strdup () at strdup.c:41 #4 0x08834785 in SECMOD_InitDB () at eval.c:41 #5 0x08839cac in SECMOD_init () at eval.c:41 #6 0x087eb0ef in SECNAV_Init () at eval.c:41 #7 0x082bf853 in main () at eval.c:41 #8 0x40227091 in __libc_start_main (main=0x82be7a4 <main>, argc=3, ubp_av=0xbffff85c, init=0x827f548 <_init>, fini=0x894914c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e374 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff854) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 The problem is consistent: even removing ~/.netscape doesn't resolve the problem. This is with netscape-communicator 4.76-10. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start netscape-communicator
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@sunsetsystems.com
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.