It only runs the first time. After I quit and restart it, it freezes
and has to be killed. If I delete the .netscape directory in my $HOME$
directory, it works. Why?

I am using Slackware 7.0 and the X server is OmniX under Windows.

Can anyone help me? I really need NS for my web design work but I
don't really want to install it on my Windows machine because I
already have IE 5.0 and in the [ast I've had severe problems with both
browsers on one machine.

Thanks in advance for any help.


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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> It only runs the first time. After I quit and restart it, it freezes
> and has to be killed. If I delete the .netscape directory in my $HOME$
> directory, it works. Why?

There's a lock file in .netscape.  Try just nuking that and see if it
works.  That spares your bookmarks, your cache, etc.

> I am using Slackware 7.0 and the X server is OmniX under Windows.

I can't reproduce this.  I'm running Netscape 4.72 under Red Hat 6.2.

> Can anyone help me? I really need NS for my web design work but I
> don't really want to install it on my Windows machine because I
> already have IE 5.0 and in the [ast I've had severe problems with both
> browsers on one machine.

I've been running IE and Netscape on the same machine (same basic
reason) at work for some time, and it's been a while since I've had
problems.  I think perhaps Microsoft went on its best behavior after the
DOJ got after them.

-Mark Gordon

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Mark Gordon wrote:

> I've been running IE and Netscape on the same machine (same basic
> reason) at work for some time, and it's been a while since I've had
> problems.  I think perhaps Microsoft went on its best behavior after the
> DOJ got after them.

I have IE4 and Netscape running compatibly without problems. I sometimes
even have them running at the same time browsing different websites.

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:02:04 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>It only runs the first time. After I quit and restart it, it freezes
>and has to be killed. If I delete the .netscape directory in my $HOME$
>directory, it works. Why?
>
>I am using Slackware 7.0 and the X server is OmniX under Windows.
>
>Can anyone help me? I really need NS for my web design work but I
>don't really want to install it on my Windows machine because I
>already have IE 5.0 and in the [ast I've had severe problems with both
>browsers on one machine.

I had major problems with 4.72 so got rid of it and went back to 4.51.
I've noticed that if I exit while downloading anything even just an 
incomplete banner add it gives me trouble and I have to kill two 
processes before opening up a working version again (when this happens
I have to do the lock file thing aswell as someone has already mentioned).

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 01:33:47 -0500, Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] mailbagcom>
wrote:

>> It only runs the first time. After I quit and restart it, it freezes
>> and has to be killed. If I delete the .netscape directory in my $HOME$
>> directory, it works. Why?
>
>There's a lock file in .netscape.  Try just nuking that and see if it
>works.  That spares your bookmarks, your cache, etc.

Where? I didn't find it in $HOME/.netscape (subdirectories included).

There's a lock directory in /var but I don't think this is what you
had in mind.


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Peter Popov wrote:

> Where? I didn't find it in $HOME/.netscape (subdirectories included).

It's there when netscape is running, and it goes away when netscape
closes gracefully.  Sometimes I've had to nuke it manually following a
netscape segfault.  If you can reproduce the problem, and the lock file
isn't there, then the lock file presumably isn't your problem.  Not sure
what it would be in that case, though.

-Mark Gordon

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Not in Linux now, so I cant check - but here's what my enormous intelligence has
to offer:
~/.netscape contains the user preferences, right? Your problem occurs the second
time you run NS, after NS has created the user prefs file(s). The problem might
be somethin silly in the values there, have you checked?
If you nuke ~/.netscape before the first run it must use some default prefs
which apparently do not cause a crash. They're probably stuffed somewhere in the
/usr/share/ or /usr/local/share (I'm still a bit lost in the plethora of
directories)

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