Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:04:57 -0500 (EST) From: David Abraham <abraham@usit.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012010730250.16280-100000@blues-cat.usit.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error If the other suggestion you recieved does not do the trick I have a couple of other suggestions to try. This is an agravating problem I have run into twice; perhaps your problems can be fixed in the same way I was able to fix mine. When I was able to run as root and not as another user, my problems was caused by the plugger plugin. It was creating a file /tmp/ndebug that other users would not have premission to access causing netscape not to start with a "bus error." The proper fix is to download a version of the plugger plugin that was compiled without the debug option enabled (you can of course get rid of the pluger pluggin but that is not much fun is it?). The second time I ran into bus errors was even more frustrating. I had just upgraded my 6.3 installation to 7.0 and netscape to 4.75. Netscsape would not start for any user. It would simply give a bus error. I tried a couple of the suggestions I had seen on this list including deleting cache files and *not* using the SuSE Netscape startup script. None of these helped. I finally renamed my /opt/netscape to /opt/netscape.old (just so I could preserve the problem installation) directory and reinstalled the nescape rpm. My problem went away. I had the same plugins in both installations I have not compared the two netscape installations in detail to see what the exact differences are. Please let me know if either of these suggestions helps you out On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:36:17 -0800 From: Ben Rosenberg <brosenb@suse.com> To: SuSE Linux English <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error
Yes, Netscape creates some temp files in /tmp that need to be deleted. I forget the name that they are created under..just hunt about in /tmp..shouldn't be much to check through.
-**-When I came back to NS 4.75 and 4.76, neither will start. From console -**-I get the message "Bus Error" and back to the prompt. -**-
Benjamin Rosenberg The Linux Experts
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