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Re: Netscape 2.01 & Linux (Redhat 2.2) Problem

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From: David Segall
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
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"Grahame M. Kelly" <gmkelly@zip.com.au> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am using successfully Netscape 2.01 with Red Hat's Linux.
>ie: 1.2.8xx kernel plus Xfree revision 3.1.2 etc.
>
>My display card is a S3 generic type 2Mb card with a Nec 5D screen on
>a Pentium PCI system. 
>
>I have no problems except that whenever I run Netscape 2.01
>it complains that it cannot use some colours, other than that 
>Netscape works well. However, if it try to do work in another
>window eg: xterm I get the following message:
>
>can't map :/dev/zero
>can't map :/dev/zero
>can't load library 'libc.so.5'
>
>If I exit out of Netscape, the xterm screen works OK.
>
>Any hints on what I need to do to get this running correctly
>other than not running Netscape ?  PS: If I start a job eg: Ping
>in a xterm before bring up Netscape the jobs runs correctly.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>Cheers Grahame
You need to update your ld.so. I replaced mine with one from the
RedHat site
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-2.1/i386/updates/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.11-1.i386..rpm..
This fixed the problem. I imagine that this is no longer the latest
version but I am sure that any later version will fix your problem.
David Segall                      davidsegall@acslink.net.au
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Subject: Re: Netscape 2.01 & Linux (Redhat 2.2) Problem
Date: 1996/04/02
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