[16525] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.15: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Thu Dec 3 11:45:48 1998
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:43:37 EST."
<199812030443.XAA09326@kiko.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 11:45:44 EST
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> We used to have a problem on IRIX 6.3 where the SGI-supplied
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape would dump core upon exit. As I recall,
> it had something to do with it having updated the user plugin-list,
> which would happen if the user's previous invocation of netscape
> (e.g. from a Sun) had run the version in infoagents. This problem
> seemingly went away when we replaced /usr/bin/X11/netscape with an
> attach-and-run script to run the netscape in infoagents.
The core file I obtained indicated that the executable in the infoagents
locker was being used.
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