Re: Netscape hanging

Subject: Re: Netscape hanging
From: Jo Mitchell (jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 03:01:11 MST

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> Has anyone have this same problem with netscape 4.6 (whatever is on the 1.1
> CD)? You run it the first time, set your preferences, use it some, works
> fine. Then you quit. When you relaunch it, it freezes, and only a kill -9
> will close it.
>
> I was able to get it to work again last night by de-installing it, then
> reinstalling, and playing with the file /usr/bin/netscape (that does some
> magical stuff so it really launches
> /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator... a program in /usr/lib, how stupid
> is that?) Or maybe I made my own sym link from
> /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator to /usr/bin/netscape, don't
> remember. I'm gonna FTP 4.7 today, I'll see of it runs.
>
> Bob

I had exactly that problem yesterday with my PowerBook. We eventually
traced it to Netscape wanting a server in the 'News' section of the
preferences. We set it to the machine hostname and it seems to be happy
with that! If you just leave the server name as 'news' then it tries to
look up www.linuxppc.org for some reason, which causes it to hang.

So, re-installing it from scratch and immediately setting the News
preferences should fix it.

While I'm here- is there now, or is there planned for the future, any
YDL documentation specifically for PowerBooks/iBooks? I'm thinking about
power management and that sort of thing, which only the laptops would
use. From the other messages in this list, it looks like other people
might like this also? If it could be written in English, for the
not-too-technical person, I would appreciate that even more! ;)

Regards,
Jo
(who doesn't know too much about the technicalitites of Linux, but is
learning)

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