gregor wrote:
Not so silly actually. This is one of the first places to look for this tyoe of issue but in my case it did not help.On Tuesday 07 September 2004 03:37 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: > I recently went through having to uninstall [ rpm -e ] kdelib~ and > kdebase and then re-install [ urpmi ] because of a 'kdeinit' problem I > had whilst attempting to update these packages having read a Mandrake > security alert. ( I'm back in kde-3.2.3 from the distro disc's ) > > Now I'm not convinced it is entirely KDE, but since then I have time to > go make a coffee whenever I attempt to open any apps. Anything at all! > > I'm running a PIII 733hz 512RAM system and things ran fine before. > > Any ideas where I should start looking?
uhm.. may sound quite silly, but look if there's a hostname in your /etc/hostname ;-)
I had no hostname in it (how did that happen??), and the result was the same behaviour as on your system.
good luck,
gregor
By the way, my hosts file is /etc/hosts [ Mandrake10 ]. In mine I have :
127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con Snapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con localhost
as I run webmin in an effort to learn things about what my system is doing. ( Not to much overkill is it? ) [ The ".con" is simply to keep webmin 'onboard' and appears to work well.]
Initially I only had :
127.0.0.1 Snapafun
Thanks for the response gregor.
And thank you again Shawn. I have just got home so will enjoy the challenge ahead tracking down your suggestions. Will let you know what the results are.
-- Regards
SnapafunFrank
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