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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE
Date: 8 May 1997 09:52:35 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
> Netscape has suddenly started acting up on me, after running just fine for
> weeks under XFree86 3.2/FreeBSD 2.2.1. Whenever I click the "Net Search"
> button, it shuts down, and the console shows it exited on signal 8
> (floating point exception). I can go to Netscape's "Net Search" page via
> the menu, no problem, so it's not anything with the data on the page
> itself, evidently.
The magic of netscape. You could try moving your ~/.netscape
directory somewhere - if it works, you can try re-customizing.
> Also, suddenly, when I startup X (via xdm), my system establishes a
> connection to my ISP. It didn't do this before. What might I have done
> recently to suddenly cause this behavior?
I assume you're using ppp -auto. Try adding
set debug TCP/IP
You'll be able to see the packets that are being sent out on xdm
startup (and maybe dfilter them).
> I'm really baffled as to what might be causing either of these problems.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !