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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:28:33 GMT Organization: One FreeBSD box Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5locge$auk@tofu.alt.net> References: <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <5lj891$q7$1@dolphin.neosoft.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41094 comp.windows.x.apps:13798 Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: : 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. Java Applets that ask for their own seperate windows will always cause Netscape to crash on my system. One sure fire way to cause a signal 11 is to try to view the Document info or Document Source. If I run a Linux ELF version of Netscape, everything but Java works perfectly. Trying to run any form of Java will cause Netscape to dump. I suspect this might be caused by Netscape looking at the Java files from the FreeBSD version and not the Linux. Too bad Netscape can't be as stable and reliable as the other Unix software around. eyager@novagate.com