Scott & Teus,

I have a little insight on my netscape crash.  I have a solution,
even though I haven't tracked down the problem yet.

After trying everything else I backed up my system and re-installed
the latest version of redhat--which I obtained from their ftp site.
I tried this first without re-formating
my linux partition -- and netscape still crashed!

So I totally reformatted my linux partition--wiping out every file,
and re-installed from scratch.

It worked! Netscape ran.

Then I started replacing my work files.  I replaced my .bashrc
and netscape core dumped.

So I commented out everything in .bashrc and netscape ran again.

The culprit in the file was my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  If it's empty,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
netscape runs.  If it contains the path /usr/X11/lib (or it
may have been /usr/lib/X11, I'm at work now and can't check it),
then I get the seg fault in rindex().

The only thing on my system is the software from the redhat
distribution--I have no 3rd party libraries installed.  So this does
look like a problem with the latest redhat distribution.

I haven't tracked down which library in the /usr/X11/lib is causing
the error--I ran out of time, but I thought I'd share this with you,
in the hopes you find it useful.

-Shawn Dawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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