Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 Solaris binary can't DNS/NIS resolve hosts under
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/11/1999 11:08:39
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
>> This has been fixed in 1.4 I believe... Try out the snapshot..
This struck me as being rather akin to the proverbial
let's-get-the-elephant-in
to-kill-the-gnat story :-)
(I just wanted one program to work, not the instability of upgrading my
entire system to an alpha release OS, guys ... )
I decided to stick with the SunOS binary for 4.51 and leave my home banking
128-bit crypto needs to 4.51 on my Macs ...
> It won't even start in 1.4_ALPHA as of yesterday. It looks for
> /tmp/.X11-pipe/X0, so I symlinked .X11-pipe to .X11-unix, where
> NetBSD keeps its Unix domain socket for the X server. This seems
> to be the relevant bit:
>
> 557 netscape CALL open(0xefffd720,0x2,0x10fdcfa8)
> 557 netscape NAMI "/emul/svr4/tmp/.X11-pipe/X0"
> 557 netscape NAMI "/tmp/.X11-pipe/X0"
> 557 netscape RET open -1 errno 122 Operation not supported
>
> Any thoughts? This seems to me a fairly critical thing to fix before
> 1.4, since the SunOS Netscape 4.51 is pretty unreliable these days.
I haven't (yet) found this to be true under 1.3.3.
> For example, it just exits if I try to download (rather than display)
> any sort of file.
Then again, I haven't tried this yet, either ...
- Greg
P.S. For fun I fired up "make" in my 1.3.3 /usr/src/pkgsrc. Holy Rolaids,
Batman! This stuff consumed 47 times its weight in excess disk space ...
I finally had to kill the make before my 2.7 Gb /usr/src partition
was completely eaten up ... (not to mention taking several *days*, and
this on an SS20/71 ... maybe I should package the results up into
binary packages so as to not waste all this expended CPU effort ...