On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Matthew Fredette wrote:

>
> [posted a week ago to tech-pkg]
>
> Hi.  I've got a MAXine with 40MB memory running NetBSD/pmax 1.5:
>
> NetBSD bulls-on-parade.home 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #48: Mon Nov 20 08:27:21 EST 2000     root@medusa.thistledown.com.au:/NetBSD/src15/sys/arch/pmax/compile/GENERIC pmax
>
> I'm trying to run the mozilla package at:
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/pmax/All/mozilla-0.6.tgz
>
> I read some previous posts saying that this mozilla must be run as
> root before it can be run as other users, so I've been doing that.
>
> But when I start mozilla, it consumes CPU for a few minutes, but then
> falls idle, no window, no nothin', even after 30 minutes.
>
> I ktraced it somewhat, but I quickly felt overloaded.  The only thing
> I saw was at one point it was trying to find many shared libraries
> using only a .so extension (i.e., libXext.so), so I made suitable
> symlinks all around.  No difference.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks -
>
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Fredette
> http://mit.edu/fredette/www
>
>

Dont know what the problem is with mozilla but you are a brave and
patient person to try and run mozilla on a pmax....

Peter Wallace