On Tue, 27 May 2003, 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? > > Thanks. The culprit was flash-plugin-6.0.79-1. Removing the link to that flash plugin and replacing it with the ones that shipped in the Netscape RPM solves the problem. Of course, that version of flash is way old, but I only need Netscape for a couple of sites and they don't run flash. Thanks for the clue... -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
