Message-ID: <3A2713AD.8010200@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:57:49 -0500 From: Ed Harrison <ed.tman@verizon.net> Subject: Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error <p> <strong>attached mail follows:</strong><hr noshade> Message-ID: <3A271241.4070307@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:51:45 -0500 From: Ed Harrison <ed.tman@verizon.net> Subject: Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error I played around with Netscape 6 and Mozilla M18 for a few days. 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. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ed Harrison
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:36:17 -0800 From: Ben Rosenberg <brosenb@suse.com> Message-ID: <20001130213617.B5517@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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SuSE Inc. Tel: +1-510-628-3380 ext:5086 580 Second St Suite 210 Fax: +1-510-835-3381 Suite 210 mailto:brosenb@suse.com Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A http://www.suse.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking. --LBJ "My opinions are not a reflection of the opinions of SuSE Inc."
From: phantasm <phantasm@triad.rr.com> Date: 01 Dec 2000 11:59:19 +0500 Message-ID: <97565348901@capricornus.hosting4u.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error Quite possibly the most annoying thing about NS is that bug. /tmp/ndebug is the trouble maker, or atleast was on my system, I don't know how safe it was, but I made it global writable and the problem stopped. Prolly a bad Idea, but if theres another fix, please lemme know. ~Robert Davies
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. -**-
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Message-ID: <3A27594C.C20F7771@faw.uni-ulm.de> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:54:52 +0100 From: Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error phantasm wrote:
Quite possibly the most annoying thing about NS is that bug.
/tmp/ndebug is the trouble maker, or atleast was on my system, I don't know how safe it was, but I made it global writable and the problem stopped.
This is not an NS bug - It is a genuine SuSE packaging bug (Check this list's archive for "plugger" for details).
Prolly a bad Idea, but if theres another fix, please lemme know. Updating your plugger package might help, if it is the /tmp/* file issue.
If not, try starting NS as /opt/netscape/netscape instead of using SuSE's netscape wrapper. The wrapper is broken for quite a while and nobody seems have cared of been able fixing it.
Yes, Netscape creates some temp files in /tmp that need to be deleted. Nope, it is the plugger package creating these files, because it is compiled with debugging on.
I forget the name that they are created under..just hunt about in /tmp..shouldn't be much to check through. /tmp/ndebug
-**-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.
Ralf
Message-Id: <200012020244.UAA31724908@smtppop1pub.verizon.net> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:49:51 -0500 From: Ed Harrison <ED.TMAN@verizon.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error ** Reply to message from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> on Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:54:52 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: <p>> If not, try starting NS as /opt/netscape/netscape instead of using
SuSE's netscape wrapper. The wrapper is broken for quite a while and nobody seems have cared of been able fixing it.
I wasn't using the wrapper. But thanks to all of you, it is now fixed. plugger.so was in ~/.netscape, so I removed it and NS now works. What is the correct way to get plugger to work Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.16, IBM JDK 1.1.8 (20000713) PBM 1.1.18
From: ajtiM <mitja.pavlovic@guest.arnes.si> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:43:33 +0100 Message-Id: <00120206460600.01877@athena> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error I have plugger.so in /opt/netscape/plugins and it working but when installed Real Player plugins plugger stop working. <p><p>On Sat, 02 Dec 2000, Ed Harrison wrote:
** Reply to message from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> on Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:54:52 +0100
I wasn't using the wrapper. But thanks to all of you, it is now fixed.
plugger.so was in ~/.netscape, so I removed it and NS now works.
What is the correct way to get plugger to work
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:15:53 -0500 From: "B . L . Jilek" <bljilek@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: <20001202031553.A168@crow.msn.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error Hi Ed! On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, Ed Harrison wrote:
** Reply to message from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> on Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:54:52 +0100
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
If not, try starting NS as /opt/netscape/netscape instead of using SuSE's netscape wrapper. The wrapper is broken for quite a while and nobody seems have cared of been able fixing it.
I wasn't using the wrapper. But thanks to all of you, it is now fixed.
plugger.so was in ~/.netscape, so I removed it and NS now works.
What is the correct way to get plugger to work
I've never had a problem with Netscape on SuSE but I had this problem on my Slackware box. I could run netscape with plugger installed as my user and root but no other user could use netscape. I took out plugger.so until I could have time to figure it out. Seeing this thread I changed the perms on /tmp/ndebug to root.users 660. Now everyone can run it just fine. -- B. L. Jilek <bljilek@bigfoot.com> | ICQ: 83785391 GPG key: DSS 420837E6 | Linux user: 163800 PGP key: DSS 0x59D04FF1 RSA 0x83C89D21 | Slackware 7.1 SuSE 7.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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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From: Niels Stenhoj <stenhoj@adr.dk> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:14:53 +0100 Message-Id: <00120117145300.01327@linux> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, you wrote:
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.
A general approach to unwanted stuff in /tmp is to wipe it at shut down. I've added these three lines to /sbin/init.d/halt.local wipe -IfRsez /tmp mkdir /tmp chmod 777 /tmp There is a little twist to it. Sometimes you have to restart the X-server immediately after boot. The symptoms are that certain programs may not be able to execute. A restart of the X-server is a small price to pay for this security. Then possible shit being installed in /tmp by java or otherwise during a surfing session won't have any effect at boot time. Cheers, Niels
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:00:02 +0000 From: Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is> Message-ID: <20001201180002.A19749@dustpuppy.suse.starf.rhi.hi.is> Subject: Re: [SLE] Netscape 4.76 - No Go - Bus Error I had this problem also. ( the bus error ) My solution was to install Netscape 4.76 ( available from Netscape.com and SuSE ) It works fine now. -tosi On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:14:53PM +0100, Niels Stenhoj wrote:
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000, you wrote:
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.
A general approach to unwanted stuff in /tmp is to wipe it at shut down. I've added these three lines to /sbin/init.d/halt.local
wipe -IfRsez /tmp mkdir /tmp chmod 777 /tmp
There is a little twist to it. Sometimes you have to restart the X-server immediately after boot. The symptoms are that certain programs may not be able to execute. A restart of the X-server is a small price to pay for this security. Then possible shit being installed in /tmp by java or otherwise during a surfing session won't have any effect at boot time.
Cheers,
Niels
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