Re: Everyone's a captain on a calm sea...
Ian Eure (ieure@crosssound.narrows.com)
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:13:29 -0700
John Hayward-Warburton wrote:
>
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Robert G. 'Doc' Savage wrote:
> > Netscape has just released a 4.6 version, but it's too early to tell if it
> > suffers from the same problem.
> (referring to the SIGALRM problem)
>
> Yes, it does. Mine went belly-up yesterday, though it seems to wait
> for longer before doing this. A wrapper library (distributed through
> the mailling list some time ago) goes a long way to making the
> problem less virulent, though when it eventually *does* happen, I
> can only kill Netscape with a kill -s 9 ...
>
AFAIK, this is an incompatibility between Communicator 4.xx and the
newer glibc systems; It really started to get out of hand for me when I
upgraded to glibc 2.1.
Since Netscape only releases binaries, they just can't keep up with the
changes to the Linux system. I remember when this same type of problem
was happening with early Communicator 4.x betas on 2.0.xx systems.
I'm hoping that Mozilla stabilizes quickly...
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