[18052] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.8: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Jul 28 12:48:41 2000
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:48:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Nick White <nickw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
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Several of these problems should be resolved when we change default
versions of Netscape (any minute now). For various reasons, the new
version of RealPlayer we have installed cannot be completely configured
until we change to the new Netscape.
In the meantime you may find that you get better results by using
'netscape-4.73' as your startup command.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Nick White wrote:
> System name: cruella-de-vil.mit.edu
> Type and version: Ultra-5_10 8.4.8
> Display type: m
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: fvwm
>
> What were you trying to do?
> View a realvideo video (from netscape, cnn.com)
>
> What's wrong:
> Upon clicking the URL, netscape crashes and burns.
> It prints "Bus Error" and gives error code "Exit 138"
>
> What should have happened:
> It should have played the video (started realvideo and whatnot)
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> In the applications part of netscape, under Realvideo, it claims
> to have a plugin (RealVideo Player Plugin)
> In a different part, it is set to use "rvplayer %s" for Realaudio files.
> Other users have had the problem as well. (also on sun; on a linux box, it
> appears to work just fine) Also, the problem seems to be unique to cnn.com
> (I can view videos on other websites just fine).
>
