[17105] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape 4.61 on Athena-Redhat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Aug 27 12:12:26 1999
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 27 Aug 1999 12:12:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: "t. belton"'s message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:57:03 -0400 (EDT)"
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"t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Oh, OK. Aaron, is there anything about this failure that needs fixing in
> infoagents? I was about to go look for misconfigurations (hard for me to
> spot since I don't run linux myself).
I see three possible solutions:
(1) Run the i386_linux2 Netscape binary on i386_linux3. This is easy
and gets rid of the problem but causes Netscape to eat even more
memory. (It has to pull in old versions of otherwise common
shared libraries.)
(2) Come up with a version of the plugin that will work with the
currently-installed binary, either by convincing Adobe to build
one or by modifying the existing plugin somehow. (This might just
be possible, but it would definitely be tricky.)
(3) Remove the plugin that's currently installed for i386_linux3, so
that the error messages go away. (This doesn't solve the problem
of missing functionality, of course.)
The best solution is probably to try to get a more suitable plugin and
use the i386_linux2 binary for the time being.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
