SUMMARY: Network trouble seen with Netscape (4.7x)
2007-12-24 19:43:00
Here is the Summary. Many thanks to Rajdeep Sengupta, as his advice sent
me on the right track.
He pointed out a problem with netscape which requires you to "touch" the
Inbox file in ~whatever/nsmail. I touched this, and the problem went
away, but only once. i.e I could only open one window and when I tried to
open another one netscape froze again.
So I took a look around, and it appeared that, when my file system fille
dup the night before it crashed the lockd daemon. The lockd daemon is
reponsible for managing shared files over NFS. As such a file that is not
locked may not have proper access.
After restarting this daemon the problem was curred.
Thanks
Cian.
p.s. I took a long look through the /var/adm/messages and sure enough
there was enough evidence in there to show the lockd was failing.
Moral: ALWAYS READ THE /var/adm/messages. I bow my humble head.
On 12 Apr 2001, Cian O'Sullivan wrote:
> Gurus,
>
> Our home space filled up last night and cause massive problems. Since I
> have recovered everything it appears that when someone presses New Message
> in Netscape it freezes. Pine, dtmail, Mutt etc all work fine, however
> Netscape is not working. All the machines are either 2.51 or 2.6.
>
> It is work stoppage until I can figure out how to get it going again. I
> ahve tried every netscape version for 4.5 up to 4.76, and they all do the
> same thing.
>
> Any ideas would be great. Thanks
>
> Cian
>
>
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