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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "Alan W. Trulock" <FredI@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.apps Subject: Re: Netscape 3.01 Gold -- exiting on SIGFPE Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 22:33:50 -0400 Organization: ...ought never be organized... Lines: 27 Message-ID: <33825F0E.41C67EA6@worldnet.att.net> References: <t5uqk5.6u1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.116.65.111 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41317 comp.windows.x.apps:13822 Conrad Sabatier 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. OK, as you said, if you turn off JavaScript the Netscape will not crash when you click the Net Search button. I went into Windows and clicked the button. It goes to a page and then switches over to another shortly afterwords. I did it again and quikly openned the file in the editor (I use 3.01 Gold under FreeBSD and Windows). When I looked at the data in the editor, it appeared to be a script to decide which search page to load next. This appears to be where the error occurs. At this point I would guess that there is either an error in the way the FreeBSD version of Netscape handles JavaScript or that the script itself has a bug in it. I am ignorant when it comes to this, but I do have the script saved to disk if anyone wants to take a look at it. --Al