Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:57:07 -0500 From: david <d.paetz@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 & Problems when DNS not available... Message-ID: <01032802570702.27570@CR549312-A.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com>
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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. Please excuse any ignorance in advance as I am new to FreeBSD and the lengthy explanation. 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 my just unplugging the network cable and I had the same results as previously. 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 messagehelp
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