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From: d.paetz <d.paetz@home.com>
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Subject: XFree86 4.0.3 problems...
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:46:03 -0400
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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.  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.

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