Re: Netscape 4.5 on 2.1.129/RH5.1

davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:33:27 +0100


Peter Waltenberg wrote:
>
> Works fine here, and my .netscape is also NFS mounted.
> What system are you using as the NFS host ?
>
> I've found (but can't reproduce) one bug with nfs hanging forever on a known
> broken nfs server.
>
the NFS server is P166/2.0.35/RH4.2:
nfs-server-2.2beta16-9 (really old!!! but newer versions have rpc.mountd
committing suicide every few minutes)

my personal pc is: PII RH5.2/P166 RH5.1 - 2.{0.3[56],1.12[789]}

Yesterday, I used strace.
<http://apemaia.roma1.infn.it/~rossetti/ns.log.gz> (~ 300KB)
it looks strange:

1054 open("/usr/lib/netscape/spell/netscape.dic", O_RDONLY) = 29
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= 0
1054 read(29, "Netscape\nNetscape\'s\nHTML\nbro"..., 2000) = 144
1054 close(29) = 0
1054 open("/apemaia/home/rossetti/.netscape/custom.dic", O_RDONLY) = 29
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
1054 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
1054 gettimeofday({911942819, 545321}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
1054 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
1054 gettimeofday({911942819, 594979}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
...
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 144900}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
1054 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 194921}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, ~[KILL STOP]) = 0
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 195216}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, []) = 0
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 195662}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, []) = 0
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 196085}, NULL) = 0
1054 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, ~[KILL STOP], NULL) = 0
1054 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
1054 fcntl(29, F_GETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0,
pid=0})
= ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
1054 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
1054 gettimeofday({911942820, 244910}, NULL) = 0
...
never ending.

~>lla /usr/lib/netscape/spell/
total 323
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 22 16:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Nov 22 16:27 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Apr 26 1997 netscape.dic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324096 Mar 20 1997 pen4s324.dat

where ~==/apemaia/home/rossetti is NFS mounted.

~>lla ~/.netscape/
total 4184
drwx------ 6 rossetti sviluppo 1024 Nov 25 11:49 ./
drwxr-x--x 32 rossetti sviluppo 3072 Nov 25 12:07 ../
...
-rw------- 1 rossetti sviluppo 8048 Nov 24 21:49 cookies
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rossetti sviluppo 0 Nov 25 12:15 custom.dic*
-rw------- 1 rossetti sviluppo 94208 Nov 25 12:19 history.dat
...

regards.

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