Message-ID: <3A27594C.C20F7771@faw.uni-ulm.de> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:54:52 +0100 From: Ralf Corsepius 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.

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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.

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I forget the name that they are created under..just hunt about in /tmp..shouldn't be much to check through. /tmp/ndebug

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-**-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

From: ajtiM 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 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: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:04:57 -0500 (EST) From: David Abraham Message-ID: 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 To: SuSE Linux English 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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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:00:02 +0000 From: Tor Sigurdsson 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:

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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:

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:36:17 -0800 From: Ben Rosenberg To: SuSE Linux English 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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