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Re: Netscape problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Waldo)
Sun Nov 17 13:44:28 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:40:46 -0500
From: Paul Waldo <pww@ssds.com>
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I am getting bus errors when I try to use Netscape's editor
(specifically editing a table's properties). I tried the libc procedure
(below) and I still get a Bus Error when editing. Does this procedure
only fix java problems or does it fix more? Thanks.
Paul
Wade Hampton wrote:
>
> I have posted this fic for Java to several groups... The problem is the libc
> and netscape interaction....older libc's work fine. see below
>
> At 10:17 PM 9/27/96 -0700, you wrote:
> >The Java portions of Netscape 3.0 seem to be broken. I have made the
> >java_30 file rwx for everyone, it still bombs when trying to run a java
> >app.
> 5.2.18 works great and runs ALL the demos. The procedure to get it running is:
>
> 1. got libc-5.2.18.bin.tar.gz from archives.
> 2. extracted it in a temp directory :
> mkdir /usr/src/libctemp
> cp libc-5.2.18.tar.gz /usr/src/libctemp
> cd /usr/src/libctemp
> tar xvzf libc*gz
> 3. copied the libc.so.5.2.18 to /lib:
> cd lib
> cp libc.so.5.2.18 /lib
> 4. created a batch file, runnetscape.sh to start netscape in /usr/local/bin:
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libc.so.5.2.18
> unset CLASSPATH
> /usr/local/bin/netscape &
> #
> 5. change this script to execute:
> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/runnetscape.sh
> 6. in my FVWM and lg where I start netscape, I change references to
> /usr/local/bin/runnetscape.sh
> Wade Hampton (whampton@staffnet.com, tasi029@tmn.com)
> Use LINUX -- It works.... Win95 Crashes....
> MickySoft should rename Start to Crash per truth in advertising laws.
> Where do you want to CRASH today?
>
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