[18191] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape won't start
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Aug 25 14:03:03 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:02:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@mit.edu>
cc: bug-infoagents@mit.edu
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Get out of my head, Aaron :)
Yes - I have to install the "linux 2.0" 4.75 Netscape. (I automatically
went for the latest when I downloaded.)
Unfortunately that means another quota increase for the locker and a tree
split - right now all the Linux system names point to the same fileset in
infoagents. Not a problem, just a pain.
Unless you're suggesting that I use the "linux 2.0" version as the ONLY
Linux 4.75 and just abandon the "linux 2.2" version entirely. Which, I
suppose, isn't all that bad an idea ... It's what we do for all the other
Linux binaries in infoagents right now. Any thoughts? (Is my explanation
even making sense?)
-Todd
On 25 Aug 2000, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> <fcarr@MIT.EDU> (Francis R Carr) writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> The binary you were trying to run requires the newer version of Linux
> which is installed on the cluster Dells. Until the infoagents
> maintainers install something more appropriate, you can run an older
> release of Netscape 4 by running the following commands at the athena%
> prompt:
>
> add infoagents
> netscape-4.61 &
>
> [Note to infoagents maintainers: the Linux binary you have now is
> specific to i386_linux22. When I looked at Netscape's website, I
> found two alternative binaries: 4.75 built for "Linux 2.0"
> (i386_linux2) and 4.74 built for "Linux 2.0 (glibc)" (which probably
> corresponds to i386_linux3). I don't know offhand which is a better
> choice in terms of plugins.]
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
>
