Background: Redhat 5.2, fully upgraded with latest packages according to errata page. Using roaming profiles with netscape. After upgrading to the XFree86 3.3.5 packages, netscape crashes with a bus error after I enter my profile password and click ok. The bus error occurs before any of the windows pop up telling me it is downloading my profile. If I remove my ~/.netscape directory, netscape loads fine. I tell it to use my roaming profile, quit netscape, and I get a bus error again after I start netscape and enter my profile password.
Try upgrading netscape? Since we don't have the source code to netscape, there's not much we can do about it... Sorry. :-(
I figured out, after downloading a half-dozen different copies of netscape, that the libc5 based version works fine. If I use any version compiled against glibc... bus error!
Using netscape communicator 4.70 and 4.61 (from Netscape, or from RedHat), I got bus error (randomly) when I close a window.
*** Bug 5899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since I updated to XFree86 3.3.5-1.5 the login dialog in netscape (I tryed 4.61 and 4.7 and both fail) is no longer working: When I want do download a page which is password protected the login dialog appears but when I press Enter after typing in user-name and passord netscape crashes with a bus error. This happens even if I supply the wrong password. I have RH5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 and I have installed all relevant Erratas. I installed netscape 4.7 from SRPM and 4.61 from the binary rpms and both crash in this situation. ------- Additional Comments From 10/28/99 15:16 ------- I can confirm this problem. netscape-navigator-4.7-1 XFree86-3.3.3.1-22 libc-5.3.12-29 Happens with earlier versions of netscape as well. It crashes sometimes, sometimes it does not. But its always while accessing password protected web pages. Really annoying.
I got bus errors every time I closed a window using: netscape-common-4.7-0.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.7-0.i386.rpm I installed communicator-v47-us.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz and the errors went away (so far). I haven't tried password-protected pages yet.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6409 ***