From: sukhdeep sodhi (sukhdeepsodhi@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 05:31:19 CEST
>From: NINAD BAPAT <kneenad@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: Re: mu-12r0 Netscape error
>Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:02:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi
> 1>.I have installed it mu12r0 in my HD. I have done
>this directly following the instructions for
>non-floppy system
> 2>.How do I change to SVGA. I was using the 11r12
>release earlier. Is there any modification in the X11
>add-on.
> 3>. With this problem I just generally surfed the
>net and found this link which explains the Bus error
>problem. Does this link give the correct info.
>
>http://members.ping.at/theofilu/netscape.html
>
>
>
>--- Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:47:04PM +0300, Stephen
> > Kasirye nicely wrote:
> > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, NINAD BAPAT nicely wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > > I downloaded the NS1/NS2 add ons. Everything
> > works
> > > > fine i.e.X started nicely no problems but after
> > > > starting X when I type Netscape it gives a
> > > > Bus error
> > > >
> > > > Please help?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I hope you have been reading all postings! (Have
> > you?)
> > > In one last posting, yesterday or the other day,
> > Michele nicely wrote,
> > > that for some odd reason Netscape does not start
> > in RAM. You will have to
> > > clone the mu set onto a hard disk from which it
> > will then work.
> >
> > This is because Netscape is compressed with UPX. The
> > UPX decompress on
> > the fly, creating some enourmous file in the /tmp
> > directory. The /tmp
> > directory, in the RAM mulinux, is a simple ramdisk
> > and a ramdisk is only 4M
> > in muLinux.
> >
> > Without UPX, we need three disk: NS1, NS2, NS3, but
> > this again will not
> > works, because the uncompressed binary is still to
> > big to be contained
> > in a ramdisk.
> >
> > >
> > > He speculated what the problem could be, but first
> > do as he said. I hope
> > > you won't get a problem at all.
> > >
> >
> > It is using surely VGA16; for strange raisons,
> > Netscape often fails with
> > "bus error" with this server. But I'm not totally
> > sure about this statement.
> > Indeed, in the case of the ramdisk problem, my
> > version fails without
> > special error message, i.e. silently crashes.
> >
> > Michele
> >
> > --
> > I keep trying to locate a meeting of Quantum
> > Physicists. But everytime
> > they set a meeting time, the location changes. And
> > vice versa -- Anonymous
> >
> >
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