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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE
Date: 16 May 1997 22:22:09 -0500
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In article <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
>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.

Disabled Javascript and the crashes stopped.  Hmmm.

>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 think this was somehow related to my experiments with named.  Turned off
named and the problem went away.


-- 
Conrad Sabatier
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads