Very Computer

After having downloaded Navigator 2.1 for Linux from the netscape server,
I can run netscape but when I do commands in other windows I get messages like

% ls
ls: can't map '/dev/zero'
ls: can't map '/dev/zero'
ls: can't load library 'libc.so.5'

Anyone seen this before?

The updated rpm you need can be found at ftp.redhat.com/pub/old-releases/
redhat-2.1/i386/updates/RPMS/

Kit

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There are two potential problems with Netscape under
Red Hat.  'missing' libraries and complaints about /dev/zero.

Netscape is a.out in nature, so you have to install the a.out
compatibility rpm for it to run at all.

The /dev/zero mapping problem is fairly common with the newer
versions of Netscape running under Linux.  Make sure you are
using the latest version of Netscape ( 2.0 or later).  
You also need to upgrade ld.so to at least version 11.  
(versions prior to 11 may work, but we know 11 does.)

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Thanks for the pointer - I have installed the ld package and now the first
two problems are all fixed, but I am still getting those pesky DNS errors,
which, according to the discussion on the Red Hat mailing lists available
via the Red Hat web page, have to do with a timeout on the Netscape
side - this only appears on slow PPP connections like mine (this message
is appended).

So, is there an RPM to replace /lib/libc.so.5.0.9 (which is what came with
RHL 2.1) or do we need to set up a local nameserver to cache DNS lookup
info?

   > >> Basically, it looks like the DNS lookup is getting interrupted by a
   > >> SIGALRM and not getting restarted - one of those famous EINTR problems.
   > >> Looking at the libc-5.0.9 source, it looks like the select() above
   > >> is probably the one in inet/res_send.c at line 573, which indeed
   > >> doesn't seem to check for EINTR. Presumably the fix should be trivial:
   > >> just put that select in a do-while loop that checks errno for EINTR.
   > >> However, right now I don't have the means or opportunity to actually
   > >> try the fix and build a new libc, so I thought I could at least mention
   > >> it here for anyone interested. (For that matter, the bug may already
   > >> be fixed in libc-5.2.9 or whatever the latest beta-test version is.)
   > >

The easiest way is to get the libc-5.2.18 RPM from Red Hat 3.0.3, and
install it with "--force". *Don't* upgrade.

You'll need RPM 2.0 for this though. See:

        http://www.redhat.com/redhat/products/rpm

for how to get that.

If you want to do this cleanly, you should do a full upgrade to 3.0.3. The
libc folks split a bunch of the libraries out of the libc distribution and
decided some other libraries were obsolete. The upgrade process handles this,
doing it by hand doesn't (I broken my laptop by doing this by hand :-( ).

Erik

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