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Article #59001Re: Netscape 2.01 & Linux (Redhat 2.2) Problem
From: David Segall
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
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 Profectus Pty Ltd Compuserve: 100241,1211 25 Myrtle Road Telephone: +61 3 9830 5026 Canterbury, VIC, 3126 AUSTRALIA Fax: +61 3 9830 0959
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,8ecb0670dff8976d X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: davidsegall@acslink.net.au (David Segall) Subject: Re: Netscape 2.01 & Linux (Redhat 2.2) Problem Date: 1996/04/02 Message-ID: <4jqn0j$31f@peg.apc.org> X-Deja-AN: 145383277 sender: davidsegall@peg.apc.org references: <31609C2D.4B15CF7D@zip.com.au> organization: Profectus Pty Ltd newsgroups: aus.computers.linux