[1475] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Netscape Crashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sun Oct 13 00:56:06 1996
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Oct 1996 16:32:29 EDT."
<udlu3rzq5ya.fsf@cutter-john.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:55:47 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> This is a known Netscape bug; it has problems with libc 5.3 and newer.
> There are two possible workarounds. (1) Disable java. (2) Obtain a
> copy of libc.so.5.2.18, put it in a directory not containing a newer
> version of libc, and make sure that you only run Netscape with the
> environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the directory containing
> libc.so.5.2.18. (You can do this by writing a simple shell-script
> wrapper.)
If RedHat 4.0.0 is really the supported version of
Linux, we should do (2) for all versions of netscape
we provide in AFS (infoagents & outland). We should
work with Netscape to get this bug fixed.
(Why did RedHat choose to go with libc.so.5.3.x ?)
We also need to find out what needs to be done to get the security
holes David Holland has been talking about on the linux-security lists
fixed in whatever version of libc we are supporting.
Erik
Bleah, I wish I had time to deal, but I don't and won't
for a few days.
