Netscape 4.72 often crashes resulting in bus error (ver. 6.4)
Support knowledgebase (jsj_netscape4_72fix)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.4
Netscape: Version 4.72-4.74
Symptom:
Netscape 4.72-4.74 often crashes signaling a bus error.
Cause:
There are incompatibilities between Netscape and the used C libraries.
Solution:
Please update to the newest available version of Netscape.
The following bugs are fixed:
- Avoid pipe buffer overflow
- Avoid freeze due intermixed thread handling of
Netscape's Java and X Window System
- Fix crashes due register input methods on already
destroyed windows.
- Avoid crashes due existing temporary directories
of plugger plugin.
- Set MALLOC_CHECK_ to avoid chrashes due doubled
freed pointers.
Version 4.75 also fixes the "Brown Orifice" bug.
Procedure:
Retrieve the newest version of Netscape
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/xap1/netscape.rpm from
our ftp server and install it with the command:
rpm -Uhv netscape.rpm
or with YaST.
Caution:
If you ever had started Netscape as root and now you can't start
it as normal user, you have to execute the following command as user
root:
chmod 666 /tmp/ndebug
Hint
The package compat from series a has to be installed.
See also:
Netscape terminates with bus error
Keywords: BUS, ERROR, NETSCAPE, INTERNET, NETZWERK, COMMUNICATOR
Categories:
Network
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