From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 23: 5: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E5C37B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usa.net ([64.162.49.122]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G2Z0040W1YFDT@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:01:03 -0700 From: Ras-Sol Subject: Really weird problem with 4.1.1/KDE/Netscape/Strace] To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <39F6771F.DC84BAA5@usa.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message