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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:01:03 -0700
From:      Ras-Sol <ras-sol@usa.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Really weird problem with 4.1.1/KDE/Netscape/Strace]
Message-ID:  <39F6771F.DC84BAA5@usa.net>

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Ok- so I haven't been able to post from work because of this strange
failure-

>     MSEXCH:IMS:speedera.com:Santa Clara:MAIL 3450 (000B099C) 450 Client host
> rejected: cannot find your hostname, [64.242.144.230]

WTF is this- some kind of reverse lookup crap?

Well whatever- maybe it'll go thru now:

Anyway- any help would be apreciated:

> So I picked up another machine a few days ago and threw 4.1.1 on in-
> 
> Got X and KDE up and running all good-
> 
> So here's the weirdness-
> 
> KDE itself seems to run decently quick.
> (This is a Fry's-Special box, with crappy SIS-620 onboard video)
> (This vid card doesn't even have any memory, it uses 8mb of main RAM)
> But when I run Netscape, it takes literally about 5 minutes to show up.
> It's listed in the process list right after I start it.
> It's in the "SELECT" state during the "nothing" period...
> But it just doesn't do anything for about 5 minutes.
> And then when it does start- it hangs for about another 2 minutes looking up
> www.altavista.com.
> (I can do an nslookup on the box at this point, and nslookup has no problem
> resolving anything)
> 
> After about 2 minutes, Alavista shows up and after that it seems to run just fine-
> New windows open quickly, screen refreshes are quick.
> No problems with *anything*-
> I really have no clue what's going on here.
> 
> I have tried both the "bsdi-netscape" and "netscape" packages.
> Both of them have the same results-
> Then I saw that for some reason the "netscape wrapper" was REQUIRED and got
> installed along with netscape.
> So I investigated this thing, and it doesn't seem to be the problem either.
> It does this whether I run netscape through the wrapper, or if I run the
> netscape.bin directly.
> 
> One more thing-
> On my linux box at work, when weirdness like this happens, I use this lovely
> command called "strace"-
> With it, I can usually sort out what's happening fairly quickly.
> Anyone know what it's equivilant in the FreeBSD world is?
> 
> --
> 
> "Two notable things came out of Berkeley in the '60s:
>  LSD and BSD... I don't think the two are unrelated."
> AIM: IMFDUP


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