[18084] in Athena Bugs
Re: odd netscape issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Aug 2 12:47:27 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:47:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Nick White <nickw@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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The conclusions reached at the bottom of the thread are basically the same
ones I'd give you: Netscape is buggy and sometimes it just crashes,
especially on Java-heavy pages. Unless there's some peculiar or
reproducible circumstance, this one just has to go in the Known Issues
file.
-Todd Belton
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Nick White wrote:
> 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)
> ___________________________________________________________
> *** 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"
> --------
> 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"
> In-Reply-To: <200008011549.LAA03067@cruella-de-vil.mit.edu>
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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.
>
