Netscape 4.75 Bus error (core dump)

[Sean Donovan]

I have recently installed netscape 4.75 on my 11.11 box.When I launch it I recieve the following error: Bus error (core dump)Any help provided would be sincrely appriciated as I am new to Unix.

[Matti_Kurkela]

Whoa. That's an old one.

I'd strongly recommend you to pick a newer version of the browser. If you specifically need an old browser, take the Netscape 4.79 or 4.8 instead - they have a huge number of bugs fixed compared to 4.75.
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive47x.jsp

I seem to recall that 4.7x practically required disabling Java and JavaScript to be useful on HP-UX. Some versions had a nasty way of leaving the "netscape" process running and eating CPU, although the browser window was closed.

[Alex Glennie]

run find / -name core
cd to the core file's directory and
try running "file core" and post the results.

thxs

[Sean Donovan]

Thanks for your response!The output from file core was "core file from 'netscape' - received SIGBUS"

Thanks-Sean

[Dennis Handly]

>The output from file core was "core file from 'netscape' - received SIGBUS"

I'm not sure if that will tell you anything much. You need to use gdb on it to get a stack trace:
$ gdb path-to-netscape/netscape core
(gdb) bt
(gdb) q

[Matti_Kurkela]

If my memory is correct, Netscape was usually downloadable as a stripped binary. In that case, even the gdb stack trace of the core file won't probably be very informative.

If a file in your $HOME/.netscape directory has become corrupted for some reason, that might cause Netscape to dump core on startup. Rename the $HOME/.netscape directory temporarily and try to start Netscape again. Netscape will regenerate the .netscape directory using the default settings.

If this solves the problem, you could copy your old "bookmarks.html" from the renamed old .netscape directory into the new one to restore your bookmarks.