Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:13:29 -0700 | From | Ian Eure <> | Subject | Re: Everyone's a captain on a calm sea... |
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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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