From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 11:28:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B004637B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61E343EB2 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h0GJSO014192; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:28:24 +0200 Message-Id: <200301161928.h0GJSO014192@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 03 21:27:46 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 03 21:27:44 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Pascal Giannakakis , questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:27:43 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Strange FreeBSD / KDE behaviour during network problems In-reply-to: <7101.1042201716@www60.gmx.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > today our company's inet falled out for a few hours. Only intranet worked. > During this > time I've booted my FreeBSD-STABLE (which took quite long due to ntpdate and > hostname) > and tried to start KDE with "startx". It did not work and din't even print > messages to > the console. So I rebooted and tried again. Sometimes KDE started, sometimes > it > didn't, and other times it started very slowly. Also not all (KDE) > applications could > be launched. I recently set up my first FreeBSD+XFree86+KDE based desktop machine, and ISTR having similar problems when the machine was unable to resolve its own hostname. I cured it by adding relevant entries to /etc/hosts. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * What are you looking down here for? Read the message! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message