On 06-Sep-99 Laurie Brown wrote:
Lads,
I don't know if this is a coincidence of not, but since I brought my PC home after alug3, if I connect to it from any other PC using X the machine hangs totally. The only cure is the reset button. Telnet works just fine, and X works fine on the machine itself.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be or how to get around it?
I recompiled to kernel cleanly and from scratch (we did that a few times on Sunday!), and that didn't help at all.
At ALUG you may have set up a route to a host that is no longer on your network. If so, eventually (about 5-10 mins) the system will time out and the normal login prompt will appear.
In any case, since telnet works, it is something between when inetd is started and the end of the rc.d processing.