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Re: Netscape freezes on Kernel 2.2.x?
Quoting Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com>:
>
> I have a reproducable problem with netscape 4.0x and 4.5 freezing on RHL
> 5.2 machines that were updated to linux 2.2.1. specifically the process
> becomes a zombie, killable only by -9, if you attempt to open a mail
> composition window (alt-m) as non-root (netscape running as root DOES
> work!). did anyone have that? solved that? is a small library downgrade
> enough and not damaging, or will I have to downgrade back to 2.0.x with
> the older modutils RPM? (notice once modutils-2.1.121 has been
> installed, older kernels don't work with modprobe anymore)
A solution was sent to linux-kernel. This fixes the problem of freezing but
sometimes bring more problems after few hours (days?).
The message can be found here:
http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/mail_archives/linux-kernel/Jan_99/5523.html
I'm sorry I didn't save it in my archive so I can't forward it.
Good night,
Liran.
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