In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401301144290.732@infinity.cl>, Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> writes
Jorgen, Andreas, Riccardo, Matti, Bob (portability issues here):
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[Bob wrote] - my experience of recent cvs, compiled on the playstion2, (blackrhino 2.2.21 kernel), apparently shows a disconcerting feature. After a few minutes of scrolling up and down standard web-sites the whole system will hang (eg it's unpingable, and doesn't respond to any keyboard input), and needs a hard reset :-(
Anyone else currently testing on the ps2 please (and hopefully had better experiences, or a fix)??
I don't have a PS2, but when testing on libc5, there was a similar problem (crash after scrolling, or crash instants after starting) when _some_ of the libraries used by the X server where compiled reentrant and some others not. In fact I was upgrading slk3.6's with the ones at: http://www.linuxsavvy.com/resources/ and some links pointed to the old ones.
Most probably these problems stem from an static errno.
Another source can be a non reentrant gethostbyname.
If dillo-0.7.3 work right on it, I'm puzzled.
Today's cvs, run _locally_ on the ps2, looks fine so far (I _can_ induce a crash, by running remotely from _two_ machines at once; I recollect that when I got crashes a week or two ago I was running remotely from only one machine - (an old 486 running slack 4, which is libc5-based...) - but I can't reproduce that result ) Let's assume all is fixed unless I shout. Bob -- robert of northworthige