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#! rnews 2296 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any Netscape greater than 1.1 hangs! Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 23:48:41 -0400 Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32017A99.41C67EA6@odu.edu> References: <4tk03o$1cl@maui.cc.odu.edu> <32002796.6C3B@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp.cc.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>, syntax@eramp.net Ken Bigelow wrote: > > Jonathan Sturges wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I've been having a problem for some time. > > If I use any version of the BSDI Netscape other than 1.1, they lock up after a > > few minutes. In the process table, they show 'RN' as their status. Also, > > they don't take down the system; you can -9 the process, and everything's > > great. > > They all work for a few minutes before they hang. It's as if a buffer > > somewhere fills up, and then the program dies. It does seem like it could be > > caused by this, or latency on my dialup PPP link, which is only 9600 bps. :-( > > Tested Netscape versions: 2.0, 3.0b4, 3.0b5a. > > Machine: Cyrix 5x86-120, 20MB RAM, FreeBSD 2.1-release. > > > > thanks for any help/experiences/advice!! > > Jonathan Thanks for your responses... but I figured it out! I've installed Netscape many times, so I was pretty sure I hadn't screwed something up there. Turns out, I forgot I had tried to get slick. See, my PC dual-boots DOS/Windoze and FreeBSD. I had Netscape under FreeBSD using the same bookmark file as Windoze; it just read it from one of my DOS partitions. Come to find out, though, that my DOS partitions are being mounted read-only, and Netscape hangs when it can't write the bookmark file! But you never get an error. All I did was copy my bookmark file to my ~/.netscape directory, and everything's great! thanks, Jonathan