On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:35:30AM -0700, Jeff Lightfoot wrote: > Nils Jeppe wrote: > > Today's unstable debian update broke netscape. I have 4.7 installed which > > wasn't updated (I am pretty sure of this), so it must be some other > > package's fault. > > > > Symptoms: Every time I start netscape, it produces a "Bus error", and > > that's it. No netscape anymore :-( yeah, i had the same problem... "Bus Error" and nothing more.... > > > > What package might be to blame here? > > Not too sure. But if I move /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/plugger.so out > of that directory, netscape will start. it worked!!! i have my netscape back!!! thanks Lightfoot!! > > I don't think plugger was updated yesterday. (maybe recently though) i started having problem a week ago, when i updated my potato. packeages brocken were mount and something other. i updated yasterday also but dpkg still says for xterm as the other dozen of packages: > Setting up xterm (3.3.6-2) ... > Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidregister line 173. > Global symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidregister line 174. > Global symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/suidregister line 178. > Execution of /usr/sbin/suidregister aborted due to compilation errors. > dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 i had plugger also in this not well defined state. when i removed it, netscape came back to light. now i'd like to fix my system, anybody has any idea or has my same troubles?? -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok <cavok@libero.it> --[ get my public pgp key at http://www.freeweb.org/free/cavok/ -----[ ICQ: 56447243
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