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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