Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2000 13:56:12 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: problems with 2.4.0-test8 |
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > Richard Polton wrote:
> > I am using 2.4.0-test8 on an i686 laptop. I find that netscape-4.72 > > keeps locking up. I am not able to kill the process at all (without > > a reboot, and SysRQ cannot do a sync on the partition it is running > > in either). I have been advised that RvR's memory patches will fix > > this but I have yet to try. (This behaviour also can be seen with > > ppp-2.4.0, which is a trifle irritating 8-) > > I have the same kind of problems with 2.4.0-test8, test-9-pre[678]. > > I'd thought it is due to bug in my (usb pegasus) driver which i used > most of the time. But i got the same crash with eepro100 which is > considered to be fairly solid. > > The bug appears when netscape tries to switch the windows or open new > one. I'm afraid the newest RvR's MM code is not so stable.
You may want to try my latest patch ;)
I have known about these problems for about 2 weeks, but was away at conferences so couldn't create a clean enough patch to send to Linus ;(
http://www.surriel.com/patches/
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
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