Re: ongoing mozilla problems

From: <llewelly_at_xmission.com>
Date: 31 Mar 2004 18:28:06 -0700
Chris Shenton <chris_at_shenton.org> writes:

> Nate Lawson <nate_at_root.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:58, Nate Lawson wrote:
> >> > Any page that includes links to imgs on other pages hangs while loading.
> >>
> >> At least one user has reported that an old IPv6-related resolver bug has
> >> resurfaced in 1.6-based browsers.  If you have IPv6 in your kernel, you
> >> might try removing it temporarily (if you can) to see if this helps
> >> matters.  Other users have reported similar hangs in the past when
> >> trying to load images off of ad caching servers. 
> >
> > I disabled IPv6 and it appears to be working fine again.
> 
> I noticed this on my home 5.2-CURRENT systems with Mozilla-1.6.  When
> I just upgraded my work's 4.9-STABLE system with Moz-1.6 via
> portupgrade and now I see it there too.
> 
> At home I can't disable IPv6 on CURRENT as X11R6-4.3.99.12 seems to
> need it to work.

I ran into this issue too. I put:

#define BuildIPv6		NO

in xc/xc/config/cf/host.def

and recompiled. Then X11 ran fine without ipv6.
Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 15:28:08 UTC

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