From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 09:25:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C7816A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:25:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B9143D5C for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:25:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:25:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IE500FXVRIL0VF0@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:25:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IE500916RILHO@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:25:33 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:25:23 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050330092156.GB31050@absaroka.eryn-lasgalen.org> To: Par Leijonhufvud Message-id: <424A7083.4090402@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <20050330092156.GB31050@absaroka.eryn-lasgalen.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050326) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE refuses new processes when network goes away X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:25:34 -0000 Par Leijonhufvud wrote: > When I start it up with network up everything is fine, but if the > network dies (we have a slightly dodgy ADSL, which periodically plays > yo-yo) it will refuse to open new processes or windows. > > Is it (likely to be) a KDE, xopen or freebsd problem? Is your /etc/hosts correct? I've seen this happen when the local hostname (i.e., the output of `hostname`) cannot be resolved. Colin Percival