Thanks for the reply. I have tried clearing my Netscape cache, and it still happens. the strange thing is that this problem just started happening two days ago. Before that, I was able to search on Ebay just fine.
Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 12:53 23 May 2002, Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I'm running Netscape 4.78 on Red Hat 7.2. I've occasionally had > | sporadic Netscape bus error crashes. Now I get a consistent bus error > | Netscape crash when I try to do a search on Ebay. I can go to any page > | on Ebay, but when I try to search for items with their search engine, I > | get an immediate bus error crash. What causes Netscape bus errors, and > | what could be the reason I get these without fail in Ebay searches? > > Genericly, a bus error is a misaligned memory access. It is almost always > the result of using a pointer while contains garbage instead of a valid > address. And therefore, it generally merely means "this program has a > bug in it". Without the source (and some familiarity with the source) > you won't get much more specific than that. > > Now, to netscape bus errors: > > I have occasionally found them to be associated with cached data. > Try: > - shut down netscape completely > - rm -r ~/.netscape/cache > - fire up netscape again > - revisit ebay > Of course, assorted other things will crash netscape. > If this persists, give Mozilla 1.0rc2 a try. I'm using 1.0rc1 very > happily. > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > > [The Press] had tried to contact usenet but that no one had been available > for comment. That's odd, I thought, if there's one thing you can say about > usenet, its that there's usually someone available for comment. > - Paul Taylor > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list