[Sheflug] Netscape crashes: "Illegal Instruction"

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

Right...here's one for you all to think about, 'cos I can't figure it out 
short of blaming the hardware ...

On a friends machine, Netscape (various versions of 4.x have been used) 
always crashes with an Illegal Instruction...and a core dump. It happened on 
with SuSE 6.1, so lasy night, he blew it away and stuck RedHat 6.2 on - and 
its still crashing with illegal instruction whenever the netscape window is 
focused. At the moment we can't get past the license aggreement page .... 
move mouse into window - "Illegal Instruction (core dumped)". This happens 
when using either WindowMaker (built after the installation) or Enlightenment 
(Gnome - supplied by RedHat).

It also looks as if WPrefs, from WindowMaker (currently 0.62.1  - but other 
versions failed as well) also Illegal Intructions...and earlier, whilst 
building WindowMaker, cc1 [egcs-2.91.66] received an Illegal Instruction when 
trying to build one particular file (which didn't happen after a reboot and a 
reconfig almost from start). EGCS hasn't caused any other problems though - 
qmail, windowmaker libs have all been fine now.

Answers on a postcard?

Thanks,

Chris...

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