[4404] in testers

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Re: See Netscape. See Netscape crash. Crash, Netscape, crash!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed May 31 14:56:38 2000

Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200005311856.OAA26450@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
CC: The guy named after an Om Kalthoum song <ocschwar@mit.edu>,
        testers@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[4403] in testers"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

| 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:

Is there any reason to believe that these are the same error?
Shouldn't we at least garner stacktraces to at least differentiate
between different problems, and have some idea of the code area,
and whether it was a problem in an OS shared library or in netscape code?

--jhawk

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