[rescue] Solaris 9 woes

[Jody Stephens]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:06:16PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:38:53AM -0600, Jody Stephens wrote:
> > I finally got some solaris 9 cd's off of a friend. After
> > much travail I finally got it installed on my Sparc20
> > (1xSM-71, 1XSM-61, 4MB VSIMM). Everything seems to work
> > fine (and faster too), except that the Xserver will lock
> > up, but only, it seems, when I use a graphical web browser
> > (Netscape 4, and Opera 5 both do it). And this is a hard
> > lock (unlike my usual experience with sun kit) nothing
> > responds, even a L1-A. Nothing is reported to the logs
> > (/var/dt/Xerrors, ~/.dt/errorlogs, dmesg, messages, etc.)
> > as far as I can tell. I have already installed the 
> > reccomended patch cluster. I'm having no luck searching
> > for an additional patch. 
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen a similar behavior? Or have some
> > advice?  
> 
> Have you tried Mozilla?  I don't see why a web browser should lock it up
> more than anything else.  What about the Gimp or other heavy graphical apps?

Not mozilla yet. I wouldn't think web browsers are that
special, other than that they are fairly intensive graphically
and are probably heavily threaded.

I'm still in the process of building everything fresh
so other than running iNES (nintendo emulator) I haven't 
done anything heavy. 

Jodys