Bug 3623 – Netscape simply does not work.

Bug 3623 - Netscape simply does not work.

Summary:	Netscape simply does not work.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	netscape (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-06-21 15:36 EDT by rcarpen
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-07-13 16:14:09 EDT
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Description rcarpen 1999-06-21 15:36:28 EDT

Netscape crashes after a few minutes for no apparant
reason.  For intel, you can download 4.08, and disable java,
and it all works, but 4.5x and 4.6x simply *do not* work for
any platform as shipped by Redhat.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-21 15:40:59 EDT

Are you using the font server? If so, what does your
font path look like?


------- Email Received From  Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> 06/21/99 16:16 -------

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-21 19:20:59 EDT

Ack, sorry, meant the font catalogue in /etc/X11/fs/config.

------- Email Received From  Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> 06/21/99 19:53 -------


------- Email Received From  Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> 06/21/99 22:20 -------

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-23 18:06:59 EDT

Are there particular pages where it crashes?

Also, while this will break plugins and other programs
launched from netscape, does running it as:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib \
/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2  \
/usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator

improve stability at all?

------- Email Received From  Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> 06/24/99 09:19 -------

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-24 12:17:59 EDT

There should be compatibility libs in
/usr/sparc-glibc20-linux/lib on sparc as well
(you need the compat-libs & compat-glibc packages installed)

Unfortunately, the sparc version of netscape is *much* less
stable than the intel version.

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