[18762] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Feb 8 13:40:22 2001
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@mit.edu>
cc: Francis Carr <fcarr@mit.edu>, <sipb-athena-bugs@mit.edu>,
<bug-infoagents@mit.edu>
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Somehow I managed to get Aaron's reply to this without having seen the
original message.
You get the license message, as Aaron noted, each time you change
versions; since the recent updates, one Linux platform is running 4.74,
the other two are running 4.76, and Sun and SGI are running 4.75. So the
messages have increased. I'm thinking about trying to trick Netscape into
eliminating these.
As for the crashes, the errors you describe are NOT the characteristic
ones we see when Netscape is just being stupid. While it could be a
symptom of moving between platforms a lot, other users do this and don't
get those problems. I'm more inclined to suspect your office system,
frankly. I'd like the information on it - i.e. Athena version, platform
type and version, and amount of physical memory present. I probably won't
be able to fix it, but it will help track the problem, and to see if
anyone else gets it.
-Todd Belton
On 7 Feb 2001, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> <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)
>
