Re: [TCLUG:6659] netscape

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh@bitstream.net>]

This sounds like the problem I (and everyone else who uses Redhat 6.0) was 
having...luckily there's an easy solution:

 >> > Does anybody know the fix for the "bus error" that happens when a page
 >> > loads a Java applet in Netscape 4.5 and above?
 >> > I use Red Hat 6.0, XFree86 3.3.3.1, Linux 2.2.5-15, S3 Virge/DX video.
 >> >
 >> > I've tried Netscape 4.51 and 4.6, both have the same error. I've
 >> > checked out Dejanews, and a lot of other people seem to have the
 >> > problem, but I haven't seen a solution.
 >>
 >> I'm running Red Hat 6.0 and had the same problem. As strange as it sounds,
 >> it's a font problem.
 >>
 >> Here's the solution:
 >>
 >> As root:
 >>
 >> chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
 >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
 >>
 >> chfontpath is in the RH 6.0 chkfontpath-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm package.
 >Seems that the reason netscape dies, because it cannot cope with
 >Fontpaths that include the "unscaled" phrase. For me it helped
 >to remove that phrase from my XF86Config Fontpaths. chkfontpath
 >may do the same thing.
 >Thomas

Hope this works for you...
Brady

>Hmmmm, I cannot get the delta website to load at all. Netscape dies
>on me on loading that page. Is there anything else I can use as an
>alternative ??
>
>I have netscape-communicator-4.51-3 on Redhat 6.0.
>
>And people are complaining about microsoft trying to dominate with
>IE :-) on the windoze platform..
>
>Heh !
>sandipan
>
>Ryan Goldberg wrote:
> >
> > Hiya...
> >
> > I'm running Redhat 6.0.   (freshly installed)  When I load anything with
> > some java, netscape shuts down.  No warning, no nothing, just closes.
> > Anybody seen this?
> >
> > -- Ryan Goldberg -- rgoldber@d.umn.edu --
> >
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