Before I tried 2.02, I attempted to open 4.8, which used to work on my
PC, but it crashed with a seg fault. Interestingly, about half of the
time it crashed immediately after typing the ./netscape command while
other times a browser window opened after a few seconds and it crashed.
I deleted my profile and reinstalled but no luck. I searched the web
and didn't see any solutions, but then again, nobody runs Netscape these
days.
However, I was able to find a version of Netscape 4.75 compiled with
libc5 and it works perfectly. Any ideas what could be wrong? It's not
the Netscape version because glibc builds of 4.75 and 4.8 both crash. I
guess it's either a misconfiguration, a bug in Netscape, or a bug in glibc.
$ ldd netscape-glibc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libBrokenLocale.so.1 => /lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 (0xb7fca000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7f7a000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7f72000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7f5a000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xb7f45000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7f36000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f27000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e60000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e5c000)
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 (0xb7e1a00
0)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7df3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7cb3000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fe7000)
$ ldd netscape-libc5
libXt.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7fa2000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7f9a000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7f86000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xb7f75000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7f67000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f5d000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7ecb000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0xb7ec8000)
libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0xb7dff000)
libg++.so.27 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libg++.so.27 (0xb7dc7000)
libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libstdc++.so.27
(0xb7d95000) libm.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5
(0xb7d8d000)
Clay Dowling wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>
>> The images aren't loading and there are Javascript errors
>> <http://geocities.com/collorap/gllug-ns2.jpg>. Do I need to upgrade
>> my browser?
>>
>> That's Netscape 2.02 on Linux, by the way. I tried 1.1 also, but it
>> wouldn't connect to the server.
>>
> Yeah, I think 1.1 has trouble with named virtual hosts.
>
> As for the upgrading, I say definitely yes. Grab lynx. A vast improvement.
>
> Clay
>
>
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Patrick Collora