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From: "Alan W. Trulock" <FredI@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 18:38:43 -0400
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I too have been having this problem lately.  Any suggestions besides
sacraficing another chicken?

Additionally, I have had some calcru: negative time errors.  If there
are any ideas on this, please clue me in.

--Al

Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> 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?