[18188] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape won't start
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Aug 25 13:36:47 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:36:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Francis R Carr <fcarr@mit.edu>
cc: cfyi@mit.edu, web-agents@mit.edu, bug-infoagents@mit.edu
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The short answer - at least for the next day or so while I put in a better
fix - is to run 'netscape-4.61' to launch the older version of Netscape
explicitly when you're on your office PC with the older Linux. You'll lose
a couple of security fixes, but at least you'll be able to run it.
You'll also get those annoying license agreements each time you change
from 4.61 to 4.75 and back.
I know that's not a very good solution. It looks like we will need more
than one Linux version of Netscape now that we've moved to 4.75 - the one
we're using only works with relatively recent Linuxes. I'm working on the
best way to handle this, and will have a better fix as soon as I can.
-Todd Belton
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Francis R Carr wrote:
> I'm running Redhat-Athena on a PC in my MIT office.
> -> Linux version 2.0.36
> -> Athena RVD (linux) Version 8.2.0
>
> Yesterday I started Netscape on the PC in my MIT office, and it worked
> fine.
>
> Today I logged into a workstation in one of the Athena clusters and
> started Netscape from the Dash menu; version 4.75 came up, with a
> standard license agreement to sign. I signed it, and version 4.75
> worked fine. My certificate had expired, so I got a new one, but
> otherwise I didn't change any Netscape settings.
>
> Later the same morning, I tried to start Netscape on the PC in my MIT
> office. The following console error messages appear, and Netscape exits
> the MIT home page with signal 127:
>
> /mit/infoagents/arch/i386_linux3/MIT-only/netscape/netscape: error in
> loading shared libraries
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
>
>
> I presume that by using Netscape 4.75, some config file has changed, and
> now 4.75 is my default version. I also presume that either my Linux
> kernel or Redhat-Athena version is too old to support 4.75 properly.
> Netscape version 3 (from the Dash menu) still works, BTW.
>
> Right or wrong, what's the fix?
>
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Francis Carr
>
