Subject: Netscape 4.0beta3 - the plot thickens
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/10/1997 20:20:08
It's even more sinister, folks. I dropped down to single-user mode and
tried to run it (13 Kb of swap used, no MFS /tmp mounted, 5 processes in all)
and it *still* failed with ENOMEM.
Oh, David asked about the ktrace, well it simply fails the execve():
netbsd4me:1:24 % ktrace netscape-4.0beta3
ktrace: exec of 'netscape-4.0beta3' failed: Cannot allocate memory
netbsd4me:1:25 % kdump
375 ktrace RET ktrace 0
375 ktrace CALL __sysctl(0xf7ffe668,0x2,0xf328,0xf7ffe664,0,0)
375 ktrace RET __sysctl 0
375 ktrace CALL break(0xf368)
375 ktrace RET break 0
375 ktrace CALL break(0xfffc)
375 ktrace RET break 0
375 ktrace CALL break(0x10ffc)
375 ktrace RET break 0
375 ktrace CALL execve(0xf7ffe7b0,0xf7ffec80,0xf7ffec88)
375 ktrace NAMI "/usr/local/bin/netscape-4.0beta3"
375 ktrace RET execve -1 errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
I'm going to try 4.0beta3 on a regular SunOS 4.1.x machine next and see what
happens ...
Installing 4.0beta3 seems to have killed my older Netscapes
(well, 3.01 and 4.0beta2 at least). They now die with
"dlopen: stub interception failed" errors and promptly Bus error. :-(
Oh, to the person who wanted my MFS /tmp line from fstab:
netbsd4me:1:27 % egrep tmp /etc/fstab
/dev/sd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=40960 0 0
I've had no problems at all using an MFS /tmp with NetBSD/SPARC, works great.
- Greg