This is on a labtop (IBM Thinkpad R50e) running 5.3-RELEASE. When I start it up with network up everything is fine, but if the network dies (we have a slightly dodgy ADSL, which periodically plays yo-yo) it will refuse to open new processes or windows. Is it (likely to be) a KDE, xopen or freebsd problem? /Par -- Par Leijonhufvud par@hunter-gatherer.org This is not a book to be set aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force! -- Dorothy Sayers,
Par Leijonhufvud wrote:> When I start it up with network up everything is fine, but if the > network dies (we have a slightly dodgy ADSL, which periodically plays > yo-yo) it will refuse to open new processes or windows. > > Is it (likely to be) a KDE, xopen or freebsd problem?Is your /etc/hosts correct? I've seen this happen when the local hostname (i.e., the output of `hostname`) cannot be resolved. Colin Percival