[18755] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Feb 7 16:54:13 2001
To: Francis Carr <fcarr@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-athena-bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 07 Feb 2001 16:53:48 -0500
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<fcarr@MIT.EDU> (Francis Carr) writes:
> What's wrong:
> (a) Repeated crashes when using netscape on my office machine
> (aoc.mit.edu), with error codes 127 or 7. I'll be looking over
> a web-page, and BLIP! down it goes. There doesn't appear to be
> much rhyme or reason; it happens when I'm following a hyperlink,
> or while I'm waiting for a slow page to download, or when I go
> to open a new window, or ... etc. etc.
> (b) Software-verson/licensing problems.
> The first time I start netscape in an Athena cluster, the
> standard licensing agreement appears. Afterwards, when I go
> back to my office and first start netscape, the licensing
> agreement re-appears. Different software versions?
>
> These problems started cropping up in the last week or so.
There were recent changes to the infoagents locker which caused (b)
[because Netscape hasn't released 4.76 for all platforms :-/] and may
well have caused (a) [because different versions are differently
buggy].
> I recently ran a SIPB Linux update (security patches); perhaps
> that is part of the problem?
No, that's irrelevant, and in fact a good thing.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
