(part 2) netscape problem after uptade V4.0D -> V4.0F

["jean.schuller" <Jean.Schuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Hello all,


My problem was
>       I migrate since a few days all my boxes from an older to
>       V4.0F DU version + patch duv40fas0002. 
>       My own alpha DEC3000/300 was upgraded
>       from V4.0D to V4.0F and since, all the users loosed their
>       bookmarks when they use netscape. BTW, netscape 4.5
>       crashed very often since upgrade.
> 
>       Any idea ??

	and I got help from Sean O'Connell who says :
1) :
netscape looks in $HOME/.netscape directory for people's bookmarks
in a file called bookmarks.html . make sure that file exists and
is writeable by the user.  really old versions of netscape used
different locations, but nothing has changed too dramatically. Take
a look a their $HOME/.netscape/preferences.js file and make sure
that it is looking where you think.

What shell are you using?  Could the homedirectory identification
be messed up?  etc?

2):
It is odd.  It still sounds like a path or permissions problem.
Is anything in your .netscape directory owned by root or a user
other than you?  This is truly odd.  If you start netscape via 
the command line, does it work? 

What options is netscape being started with from the CDE banner?
I don't use CDE (and try to stamp it down as much as possible...
icky, icky).  I also, install netscape myself (in fact, I did
a setld -d OSFNETSCAPE440, but to prevent it from being loaded
by other software or complained about, I did touch the lock file
/usr/.smdb./OSFNETSCAPE440.lk :)

	After these advices, I had a look to preferences.js which is
	automatically generated by netscape and find in it that
	user_pref pointed allmost all to /usr/users/account_name
	but I have all my accounts on /usr1/users/account_name.
	So I couldn't find into the netscape preferences where
	I can set the prefs to /usr1, the only way I found (and it works)
	was to make links , from /usr/users/... to /usr1/users/...
	Ok it works but ?????


	Of course, before trying with the links, I checked all
	the write permissions on /usr1/users/...

	Strange.

	JEAN

	


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