Re: Netscape Hangs

[Phil Craxford <craxford home com>]

> Hello,
>  I have noticed this problem in the last couple of days and don't know
> what I did or if I even did anything.
> I am running RH 6.2 on a Pent 180. This was a new build from scratch on
> a running system.
> Every once in a while if I visit a site with Java or something it will
> lock my netscape. I have a mail window and a browser window opened. I
> don't  run multiple browser windows or much else.
> Until recently I used to do a ps -af or a ps -ef to show processes that
> are running and then I could send a kill signal to just netscape. Now no
> matter what option I use with ps I can't get it to show netscape is
> running at all. I have also tried top. It worked once to show me the PID
> of netscape but now all top does is to clear the screen and then the
> typing is not visable so I exit from the terminal window and restart
> another one.
> 
> I am running KDE desktop.
> Where can I start to trouble shoot the errors and why isn't ps working.
> What can I look for to get this system back up to normal.
> 
> Since it is a mail server I don't want to reboot every other second.
> Thanks in Advance.
> 
> --
> Ron Bramblett
> Systems Administrator
> The Fuller Brush Company


I have the same problem with Netscape.  Would apreciate any solutions
you get and I'll do the same.

Phil
Kingston, Ontario