Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Netscape broken with 2.2.0-pre7 | From | Truxton King Fulton II <> | Date | 16 Jan 1999 09:15:03 -0800 |
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I've seen this too with pre-6. It seems to happen more on my 16MB machine than my 96MB machine. I've also seen the same thing happen to xclock and xload. They just become unresponsive. Reverting to linux-2.1.130 fixes the problem.
-Truxton
Mike Harrelson <mikeh@mindspring.net> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Yep, something real weird going on. Here's one with netscape. It > > locks up netscape 4.07 every time; I can't read slashdot ;-) > > > > Netscape gets into this loop, for no apparent reason. The signals are > > coming at high speed, and netscape isn't responding to anything else: > > > > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) > > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) --- > > gettimeofday({916445765, 85701}, NULL) = 0 > > sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) > > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) > > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) --- > > gettimeofday({916445765, 136834}, NULL) = 0 > > sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) > > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) > > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) --- > > gettimeofday({916445765, 185730}, NULL) = 0 > > sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) > > > > [repeat...] > > I've seen this too on 2.0.35 running Netscape 4.05. A strace on the process > produces output exactly like the above. My machine is a 486-66 with 32MB RAM, > libc 5.4.46. Netscape becomes unresponsive and difficult to kill without a > SIGKILL. It only happens occasionally, though, and doesn't seem to affect > anything else. > > -- mikeh
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