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From: james earl <james_earl@telusplanet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes X!
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:15:33 +0000
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Ron Echeverri wrote:
> 
> In article <32704F9E.1781@ibm.net>, Jeff Genender  <jgenend@ibm.net> wrote:
> >I am wondering if anyone has seen a similar problem as me on FreeBSD
> >2.1.5R.  I have my X Windows configured nicely and runs most
> >applicatations as expected.  The only problem I have is with Netscape
> >3.0 (BSDI binary).  When I run it for a while (actually this will happen
> >at any random time - 2 minutes, 5 minutes - who knows) The system locks
> >solid.  I cannot even get a telnet connection.  There is no core dump
> >and I have to reboot the system (uggh) with the reset key or repower the
> >system.

Do you run your dial-up networking (slip/ppp), from the shell?  From my
experiences, when I run PPP from the shell, then startx, netscape will
crash (can't remember on what error, sorry).