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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE Date: 16 May 1997 22:22:09 -0500 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 23 Sender: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com Message-ID: <5lj891$q7$1@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.69 X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test57 (27 Apr 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41092 comp.windows.x.apps:13797 In article <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>, Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: >Netscape has suddenly started acting up on me, after running just fine for >weeks under XFree86 3.2/FreeBSD 2.2.1. Whenever I click the "Net Search" >button, it shuts down, and the console shows it exited on signal 8 >(floating point exception). I can go to Netscape's "Net Search" page via >the menu, no problem, so it's not anything with the data on the page >itself, evidently. Disabled Javascript and the crashes stopped. Hmmm. >Also, suddenly, when I startup X (via xdm), my system establishes a >connection to my ISP. It didn't do this before. What might I have done >recently to suddenly cause this behavior? I think this was somehow related to my experiments with named. Turned off named and the problem went away. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads