On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:15:30PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:49:02PM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I need Netscape 4.7x in order to access my online banking > > > account. I have the netscape-common-4.79-1 and netscape-navigator-4.79-1 > > > RPMs from Valhalla (7.3) installed on a couple of computers loaded with > > > fully up-to-date Shrike (including Arjan's kernel-2.4.20-13.9.1). On my > > > P4 laptop (i686 kernel), it seems to work fine. But on my Athlon > > > desktops, netscape terminates with a bus error. Anyone else seen this? > > > > I remember netscape 4.7x (sometimes) getting a bus error if plugger was > > not installed. > > > > That seems like a long time ago now! > > I had plugger installed, but not linked to the Netscape plugins directory. > Linking it did not solve the problem. > > Anybody else in a position to try Netscape 4.79 on Athlon? Or any other > suggestions? Try starting netscape with strace and have a look at the end of the output. You may get a clue as what netscape is failing on: strace -f -o /tmp/netscape.strace netscape Then have a look at the end of /tmp/netscape.strace and see if you can make sense of it. The strace output shows you all system calls made by the program. Usually the open calls are most informative. > Thanks. > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
