Re: [Netsurf-develop] Intermittent problem loading NetSurf

On 17 May 2006 Paul Vigay <lists-nospam(a)vigay.com&gt; wrote: > > I've noticed recently that about 1 in every 5 times of loading NetSurf, I > get the error message "UnixLib detected recursion of signal SIGSEGV. > Exiting." when I double-click on NetSurf - before it appears on the icon > bar or anything. > > The error message is written directly (VDU4?) to the screen, and not in a > wimp error window. As soon as this occurs, any attempt to use the machine > results in a 'Filecore in use' error message and I have to reset the > machine. > > Has anyone else experienced this? Yes, I used to get this, and it turned out to be all my fault; however, this may not be relevant to Paul's problem. Being lazy, I usually run NetSurf from a keystroke in !Keystroke (now, I wonder, does Paul use NextBar?) My mistake was to have just NetSurf's full pathname in Keystroke's setup window, instead of having it preceded with Filer_Run. This worked fine the first time NS was run; however, if it was already on the icon bar, which I had forgotten, and tried to run it again from Keystroke, I got exactly the same error message, and in the same manner, that Paul describes. Having got the correct syntax in Keystroke it's never happened again.