Re: Netscape causing a reboot

[Tim Gray <flakmagnet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This is really stinkin' weird, and I suspect a hardware problem coming 
> into play.  Try copying the bad .netscape folder to another name,  
> deleting the old one, and renaming the old one to ".netscape".  If you 
> follow this procedure exactly none of the .netscape files will be in 
> the same position on the disk as the old ones,  and see if they still 
> cause a reboot.  Just in case it is a bizarre action caused by a 
> quasi-bad sector on your drive.
> 
> The only other "probable" possibility is netscape causing a buffer 
> overflow in the Xserver that faults the card in some way and reboots 
> the machine.
> 
> A memory problem I imagine would manifest itself in other ways as 
> well, such as seg. Faults, signal 11's,  and possibly really lousy 
> performance.

I tried the process you suggested, and had no problems Netscape, I also renamed
the old one back to ~/.netscape and it also worked fine.  I think that I may
have had something else going on somewhere that I don't have the knowledge base
to make a connection with this problem.  Through various trouble-shooting
measures that I won't go into detail with (because the problem didn't tweak me
out too much) I cannot get the "run netscape, get a reboot instead" problem to
repeat.  I haven't had any problems with performance, or anything you mentioned
above before or after the reboot issue.

*Shrug*  Go figure.