Re: [Sheflug] Netscape crashes: "Illegal Instruction"

["Richard Stevenson" <nospam [at] adv.net.nz>]

Umm... Signal 11 FAQ, anyone?  On my system, it's in 
/usr/doc/FAQ/txt/GCCsomething-or-other.    Tried compiling the kernel?  If 
it's occurring in character-mode programs (i.e. not always in X), then it 
could well be hardware.  See if there's a copy of the sig11 FAQ on your 
system - it's interesting reading, in a twisted sort of way :-)

Cheers

Richard



On 17 Jul 2000, at 23:40, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> 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?

-- 
Richard Stevenson
ADV E-Commerce, Auckland

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