[plug] Netscape & Stability ...

[Christian]

> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I've had no end of problems with Netscape on a PC of late. It regularly crashes
> > out with a "Bus Error", and this usually occurs when a window closes, the two
> > main "events" being:
> >   - Press close on a browser window
> >   - Enter a login/password and submit it
> >
> > What is this sort of crash related to? X-Server? Kernel? Libc6? Window Manager?
> >
> > I'm running Debian 2.1 + some unstable packages, kernel 2.2.10, kde 1.1.1,
> > libc6 2.1.1 ...
> >
> > Any ideas? It happens with both Communicator 4.6 and 4.61 (for glibc2
> > versions).

Try the libc5 versions.  I've found that the "unsupported" glibc2 builds
have numerous faults.  Since starting with libc5 versions, I've had
almost no problems.  YMMV.

Christian.

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