Subject: Re: Netscape hanging
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 09:50:06 MST
Hmm.. interesting. I did set another news server, my ISPs news server, in
the preferences. I'll try deleting ~/.netscape, then running it, and
changing the news server preference. I never thought about running netscape
while I was online, so then it could lookup/go to where ever it liked.
Bob
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> From: Jo Mitchell <jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk>
> Organization: Perseus Design Systems
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:01:11 +0000
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Netscape hanging
>
>
>> 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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