From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Laptop is behind a firewall/proxy, proxy settings are set to auto-configure, attempting to access a web site I get a SegFault in net_IsBetterAuth(). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start Netscape 4.79 or 4.8 2.set autoproxy 3.access http://sun.net Actual Results: Without GDB, netscape simply exits with a Bus Error. With GDB, I get the following backtrace listing: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x083c130a in net_IsBetterAuth () (gdb) bt #0 0x083c130a in net_IsBetterAuth () #1 0x083c14ff in net_IsBetterAuth () #2 0x083c179c in NET_AskForProxyAuth () #3 0x083e34ee in net_getInternetKeyword () #4 0x083e44ce in NET_ProcessHTTP () #5 0x083dd12e in NET_ProcessNet () #6 0x082cdf6b in fe_GetSecondaryURL () #7 0x4005174e in XtAppProcessEvent () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #8 0x082bd40c in fe_EventLoop () #9 0x082bfe55 in main () #10 0x420158d4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 Expected Results: Netscape should access the URL without crashing Additional info: I believe this has something to do with the name services: dns and/or files lookup. I use the exact same laptop at home using NAT and no proxy and it functions fine. (with the exception of hitting a Java bug)
We don't ship netscape with Red Hat Linux 8.0
similar bugs: bug 75314, bug 75221, and not least: bug 74073 Was breaking Java support deliberate? People can't reach their net-banks anymore. I will have to install CxOffice+MSIE5.5 in order to do my web-banking stuff. This is not good. If the fix in bug 74073 applies and this bug is an oversight after all, may I suggest that users are informed and an errata issued ASAP.
This is a completely different backtrace than the java-resolver crash reported in those other bugs; it's probably something different.