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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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