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From: wepprop@nettap.com (William E. Powers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Fix for Netscape v3.0x java / appletclassloader problem
Date: 25 Jul 1996 22:55:57 GMT
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.960721005547.388A-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>,
Ronald Wahl <rwa@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Ken Bigelow wrote:
>
>> Ronald Wahl wrote:
>> > I have not the AppletClassLoader problem, but I get bus errors when I try to
>> >
>> > * execute Java-Applets
>> > * edit the source
>> > * start netscape with no .netscape directory present
>> >
>> > I fiddled with the fonts.dir and fonts.alias but this has no effect. The
>> > bus errors still occure (3.0b4, 3.0b5, 3.0b5a) and I have to stay with
>> > 3.0b3 (expires on July 31 :-( ).
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Could that have to do with the /nls files not being placed in the
>> X11R6/lib/X11/nls directory?
>
> I found a solution which I posted some weeks ago under the same subject.
> Just use libXpm-4.6 & libc-5.0.9 or libc-5.2.18 but _not_ newer.
>
I also found that by reverting from libc-5.3.12 to libc-5.2.18,
java applets under netscape 3.0b5 began working.
--
Bill Powers
wepprop@nettap.com
Linux: Resistance is futile...