Sun SS4 Crashing

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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I would probably recommend that you back out the patch set, then possibly 
reinstall only some specific patches. I don't have much Sun experience, but 
patches are always a double edged sword. One example in my past is with the 
IBM sort utility on their mainframes. I installed a recommended IBM patch 
to fix a problem where we were not able to sort our system accounting 
records. However, that patch caused another problem  where the sort got 
into a loop during payroll processing. (I bought Syncsort :-).

Jon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought a Sun Sparc Station 4 off of Ebay.  I loaded it up with
> a fresh install of Solaris 2.5.1, CDE, Netscape (stand-alone) 4.79, gcc,
> OpenSSH, and a whole bunch of standard GNU stuff from sunfreeware.com.  
> 
> It ran fine until I installed the recommended patch set from
> sunsolve.sun.com.  Once, I installed the patches CDE started (or
> Openwin) crashing sporadically.  It seems to always crash when I use
> Netscape (which wasn't a problem before I installed the patch set).  The
> CDE crashes to the shell not to the OK> prompt. 
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Jon
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