Netscape 4.72 often crashes resulting in bus error (ver. 6.4)

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.4
Netscape: Version 4.72-4.74

Symptom:

Netscape 4.72-4.74 often crashes signaling a bus error.

Cause:

There are incompatibilities between Netscape and the used C libraries.

Solution:

Please update to the newest available version of Netscape.
The following bugs are fixed: Version 4.75 also fixes the "Brown Orifice" bug.

Procedure:

Retrieve the newest version of Netscape
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/xap1/netscape.rpm from our ftp server and install it with the command:
rpm -Uhv netscape.rpm
or with YaST.

Caution:

If you ever had started Netscape as root and now you can't start it as normal user, you have to execute the following command as user root:
chmod 666 /tmp/ndebug

Hint

The package compat from series a has to be installed.
See also:
o Netscape terminates with bus error

Keywords: BUS, ERROR, NETSCAPE, INTERNET, NETZWERK, COMMUNICATOR

Categories: Network

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