Subject: Re: Netscape hanging
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 19:26:22 MST
Nope, didn't work. It doesn't even get the point where it tries to contact
any site, it's right after the netscape window is drawn, but before it tries
to go anywhere. well, i'll get 4.7 installed and running, see what that
does.
Bob
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Robert Fout
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> From: Robert Fout <rfout@damien.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:50:06 -0600
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Re: Netscape hanging
>
> 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
> ---------------------------------------
> "The knack to flying is learning how to
> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>
> From "Life the Universe and Everything"
> by Douglas Adams
>
> Robert Fout
> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
> rfout@damien.edu
> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
> ICQ# 48433406
>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>> --
>> #--Jo Mitchell | www.bugiscoming.com | www.yee-ha.demon.co.uk --#
>> #--Linux-powered! | | Mobile: +44 7974 219809 --#
>> #-- --#
>> #--Stone and Sea are deep in life; --#
>> #--Permanence at rest, and permanence in motion: Stephen Donaldson--#
>
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