Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:20:03 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: d.paetz@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.3 problems... Message-ID: <3ACC7F13.AD1DDAEA@magpage.com> References: <01040423460300.01145@CR549312-A.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com>
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Make sure you have the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts. at a minimum you should have an entry for localhost and the local hostname. Then make sure "hosts" comes before "bind" in /etc/host.conf. Also, you can list additional name servers in /etc/resolv.conf. Check it to make sure you at least have more than one listed. hope this helps. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. "d.paetz" wrote: > > Hello there, > > Well, I know the subject line leaves alot to be desired, but I couldn't > really think of any other way to describe this. I have posted this > before, under a different subject and received a single response. > Unfortunately, that wasn't able to solve the problem. Please excuse > any ignorance in advance as I am new to FreeBSD. > > Yesterday I was in XFree86 + KDE, happly doing things... I then tried > to open another program, and the program showed up in the "tray" at the > bottom, with the spinner beside it... but after about 30 seconds, it > disappeared and the program never actually opened... I tried the > program again (it was an kterm session btw), and same result. I tried > several other programs and same thing for all of them. > > I thought that maybe FreeBSD was becoming unstable (no flames please, I > realize that this doesn't happen often, as it does in the WinXX world), > so I restarted and logged in again (as a user, not root). I then went > to start XFree86 (using startx), and it just sat there trying to start, > no error messages or anything displayed on the screen. After about 60 > seconds I hit CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE and X started up. I tried running > some programs and I was getting the same results as previously. > > After trying things, I finally discovered that the DNS of my provider > was down (on a cable connection), as I could ping sites with IP, but > not with name resolution. > > So, for some reason it seems that I have some type of > configuration/install problem, as it seems for me to be able to run X > or programs in X, that it is using the DNS server for resolution. > > I confirmed this today by just unplugging the network cable and I had > the same results as previously. I have also tried this with just > running XFree86 and TWM as the window manager instead of KDE and I get > the same results. > > Has anyone seen this before? Could someone point me in the right > direction on how to troubleshoot or fix this? > > Your help greatly appreciated. > > David. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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