Strange Linux / Netscape behavior - Buahaha.... fixed and Intellimouse wheel works too!

[DanC]

I'm running a Linux Mandrake pproxy / stats box.
Everything used to be perfect - but now when I go to look at stats I can get the summary page just fine, and it will display maybe two other pages before Netscape locks up and I get nothing but white. Everything else is still running fine.

I Try to close Netscape and nothing happens. Still has the outer frame with nothing in it. The only way out is to re-boot.

Anyone ever run into this?
Is there some way I can troubleshoot the problem?

 

[Kilowatt]

<< The only way out is to re-boot >>

No sir.
Go to your KMenu (Program Start Button)(the one with the big K :Q), scroll up to &quot;Applications&quot; and over to &quot;Monitoring&quot;.
Then click on &quot;Process management&quot;.
There you'll see the line (process):
/usr/i386/....yada yada...../netscape

Click on it and kill it.

Re-fire up your browser.

The next lesson is &quot;Fine Tuning Your Box&quot;

 

[DanC]

Actually... Installing Netscape Ver 6 seems to have done the trick.
Now if I can just figure out how to scrap 4.73 and get it to see 6 as the default browser.

Ugh... learning is so painful for old people.

 

[DanC]

Another revelation....

Using the KDE file manager is how you add a shortcut with icon.
I have a headache now.

 

[SyZ]

One of netscape's most favorite things to do is crash, especially on flash pages or heavy java. You have to kill the process to fix it by typing this in a shell:

killall -9 netscape
or somtimes:
killall -9 netscape-communicator
or
run gtop, find netscape, right click, and hit SIGKILL

Memorize these steps, because it will happen a lot.

-SyZ

 

[Russ]

<< Using the KDE file manager is how you add a shortcut with icon. >>



Ah, yes, I learned this when I right-clicked the floppy icon to &quot;unmount&quot; and accidently selected &quot;delete&quot;.

BTW, did I mention that today I'm on my seventh Linux install on my third box?

Russ, NCNE

 

[DanC]

Netscape 6 is rock-solid.
I even fouled up and opened about six instances. Not even a single hiccup.

 

[Lord Demios]

Another solution for a netscape problem is to do either.

Cntrl-Alt-Backspace

This will terminate your X server, and dump you back to a shell, (where you can kill off the netscape process if it still exists. Note this will close EVERYTHING down that you had open. ).

Or (what I do)

Cntrl-Alt-(F1-F6) will give you another console. Just log in. ps -ef | grep -i netscape. take that pid, do a kill -9 pidnumber. Then logout of that console and hit Cntrl-Alt-F7 to return to your Xwindows screen.

Or you can learn how to use lynx.

LD

PS, This one is for Two-Face.

ps -ef | grep -i netscape | grep -v grep | awk '{print $3}' | xargs kill -9

 

[Kilowatt]

WOW, Rock-Solid after only 2.5 hours, Totally Mind boggling, I'm amazed. :Q

 

[DanC]

hehehe.... punchy today KW????

Now... to actually get the Intellimouse wheel working...

 

[TwoFace]

OMG, you linux guru's need to chill!

/me feels sooooooooooooooooo stooooooopid now...

Not only enough with all the stuff KW and SyZ spews out... LD edits his post just so I'll feel more stoopid huh? damn

/me will learn that stuff one day and spew it right back atcha!

You hang in there fellas some day they'll actually explain all the stuff they tell us to do

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[Lord Demios]

PS (list the process table)
-ef (Format the table into a readable version)

| (takes the output of the previous command and put's it into the input of the next command)

grep (take whatever input and only output data containing that word. (aka, grep netscape, would only show the output that had the word netscape in it)
-i (case insensitive)

(netscape was the search word)

| (again output to input)

grep -v grep (don't show us (-v) anything with the word grep

| (again output to input)

awk (Input to output data manipulation)
'{print $3}' (take the third field (a field ends at a empty space) and print it out).

| (again output to input)

xargs (program that will take all data |'ed to it, and put it in after whatever you want) So in this case

xargs kill -9 would do this.
All the data from the previous commands will produce one or more numbers. xargs then will take those numbers and run the command.

kill -9 1 2 3 4 5 ... 99 endofnumbersfrominput

One enter key, and you have done all you want in one step.

LD

 

[Russ]

TwoFace,

Not to worry. The only way I ever get anything working in Linux is to just keep beating the crap out of it until it cries uncle!

Russ, NCNE

 

[DanC]

It cried &quot;Uncle&quot;... Buahaha

That pesky little setting in the etc/X11/XF86Config file....

&quot;IMPS/2&quot;...

 

[Kilowatt]

<< punchy today KW???? >>
No, I was just giving you &quot;Newbies&quot; a little crap. hehe :Q

TF,
<< /me will learn that stuff one day and spew it right back atcha! >>
Yeah, but by then we'll have moved on to bigger things, like BSD Clustering.

 

[Fardringle]

BSD Clustering? You actually WANT to have a GROUP of Blue Screens of Death?

/me shudders at the thought!

 

[Lord Demios]

Kwatt, You haven't gone to BSD Clustering yet? That stuff is almost old. The new fun thing to do is, to use Encrypted FS on a BSD platform hosting a VMWare server running Winnt, so that I can have all of my co-workers log in and have a warze server.

Ok, maybe BSD clustering is pretty cool, but I got to say, My next step is the encrypted file system work. OR an AFS clone using free space across platform to make a huge file server out of workstations. Uses the parity bit and everything. Pretty fun stuff.

LD

 

[Kilowatt]

LOL, You guys are taking all the fun out of me giving TF a hard time.