[4403] in testers
Re: See Netscape. See Netscape crash. Crash, Netscape, crash!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed May 31 13:15:32 2000
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:15:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: The guy named after an Om Kalthoum song <ocschwar@mit.edu>
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The famous Netscape bus error. Unfortunately we do not have a solution for
this, short of convincing Netscape to make a better product (or building
our own). The bug happens regularly on all Athena Unix platforms and has
for at least four or five years. It is not AFAIK related to Athena version
in any way.
-Todd Belton
On Tue, 30 May 2000, The guy named after an Om Kalthoum song wrote:
> Netscape can be gotten to quit with SIGBUS without any
> Java or Javascript (or CSS or cookies).
>
> Even downloading certain URLs for GIFS cause this.
>
> Hypothesis:
>
> Some HTTP 1.1 transaction is being mishandled.
>
> Versions:
>
> Athena default, Sun Ultras running Athena 8.3.29 and 8.4.1
>
>
