[18083] in Athena Bugs
odd netscape issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick White)
Tue Aug 1 16:04:48 2000
Message-Id: <200008012004.QAA03478@cruella-de-vil.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:04:42 -0400
From: Nick White <nickw@MIT.EDU>
A user sent us a note at olc claiming that a certain linux athena
machine was having real netscape issues, but I some of it might be
user error. If you could look into this, it would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick
The following is an olc log:
Log Initiated for user Jordan H Wosnick (jwosnick@M56-129-26.MIT.EDU [0]).
[Tue 01-Aug-00 11:06am]
Topic: networks
Question:
Hi, I'm using one of the new Athena-Linux machines in the Bldg 56 cluster. Netscape has crashed hard on me twice in the last hour, I had to get out with an emergency Ctrl-Alt-Bksp (old X-Windows trick.) Just thought you'd want to know that there are problems. Please send me a mail to acknowledge that you got this and then you can mark it 'done'. Thanks.
Machine info:
Version : Athena Workstation (linux) Version 8.4.9 Fri Jul 28 10:09:26 US/Eastern 2000
Processor: Linux 2.2.14-12 on i686
Display : none
Memory : user=262377; phys=266993 (260 M)
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*** Mail from consultant nickw@CRUELLA-DE-VIL.MIT.EDU [3].
[Tue 01-Aug-00 11:49am]
To: "Jordan H Wosnick" <jwosnick@mit.edu>
Cc:
Reply-to: olc@mit.edu
Subject: Your OLC question about "networks"
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Thank you for letting us know, but I was wondering if the crash could
be reinacted? Ie is there a certain website that crashed netscape or
was it just unhappy? Also, was it the machine you sent the olc question
from? One last thing, have other linux machines not had this problem,
in your experience, or is this more universal than that one machine?
Thanks for your help,
Nick White
Athena Consulting
From: Jordan Wosnick <jwosnick@MIT.EDU>
To: olc@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Your OLC question about "networks"
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A couple of web sites crashed it -- I think it was just generally
unhappy. It may not even be Netscape -- when pages are loading, I have a
hard time resizing or minimising windows also. I had the problem from the
machine I sent the olc from. I can't really compare with other
Linux-Athena machines, since they were installed only late last week.
Jordan
*** Reply from user jwosnick@M56-129-28.MIT.EDU [0].
[Tue 01-Aug-00 1:10pm]
I am currently using Netscape and cannot minimize, move, or resize the windows.
*** Reply from consultant nickw@CRUELLA-DE-VIL.MIT.EDU [3].
[Tue 01-Aug-00 2:34pm]
So, when you can't move, resize, or minimize windows, something else
is wrong, and I might comment that it can happen if you turn numlock
on. If it happens when a page is loading, the computer is quite
possibly grinding away just a little hard. If the pages are heavy in
java, it often can crash netscape. I'll pass the note along to bugs@mit.edu
anyway. Thanks for letting us know.
