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 and if anyone else can shed some light, I would appreciate it. David On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:28:39 -0500 From: Jeffrey Taylor To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE 7.0 and Netscape 4.75 bus errors as user

I thought this was already covered, but I didn't find it in the archives. I did a clean install of SuSE 7.0, including Netscape 4.75-0. I can run Netscape as root, but not as a user. It gets a bus error, apparently on an munmap() call. I did restore the root's and the user's home directories from backup of the previous system, a SuSE 6.1. I deleted the user's .netscape directory and it still dies.

Any help appreciated.

TIA, Jeffrey

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