[OLUG] fsckin' netscape must die

[puzzled at home.com]

    so you're saying that crudscape relies on poorly
maintained/undocumented/nonexistent functions in glibc2.1? don't tease us like that
phil, fork advanced debugging tekneek :-)  will you be giving a talk on strace at the
next meeting?




Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> >     I've been running nescape 4.6 and 4.61 and I have never been more
> > disappointed in a linux application. I've had a steady stream of crashes, mostly
> > related to Java/Javascript so far as I can tell, and the behavior is getting
> > steadily worse as time passes - it feels just like a six month old windos NT
> > workstation install - slowly slipping towards outright insanity and
> > reinstallation.  I am using redhat 6.1 at home and redhat 6.0 at work with both
> > systems upgraded to run 4.61. The 6.1 box is *much* crazier when netscape is up
> > ... I've had Java starting lead to outright xserver crashes on a number of
> > occasions.
>
> A hint: use a different binary.  They're available for libc5, glibc2, and
> glibc2.1.  glibc2 may not be an option, but you may have better luck with
> libc5 (or glibc2.1, if you're using the libc5 binary)
>
> > Is anyone else suffering this indignity?
>
> Can't say that I am.
>
> > I spend most of my day browsing/emailing and using staroffice so it
> > really stinks to have 50% of my main software puking on a regular
> > basis. Are there any strategies for stabilizing it? Or at least
> > containing the damages?
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Brutsche                                   pbrutsch at creighton.edu
>
> "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
> universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
>
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