[plug] X Hangs PPP

[Tony Clark]

maybe you have your mouse pointing to the wrong port...stop gpm before starting
X see what happens.

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> I dunno about this stuff
> 
> Any suggestions about what I should try in order to find out why booting
> Xwindows should cause my dialup PPP to hang will be appreciated.  If X is
> already running and I start ppp it's fine.  Shutdown X and restart it
> (after Netscape locked the GUI up) and ppp was still there but not
> functioning.
> 
> Fetchmail says there's a nameserver error.  Ping just sits there.
> Traceroute just gives asterisks.  ifconfig shows no errors.  netstat -r
> gives:
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 203.0.178.34    *               255.255.255.255 UH      576 0          0 ppp0
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U      3584 0          0 lo
> default         203.0.178.34    0.0.0.0         UG      576 0          0 ppp0
> 
> Should I uninstall X and start again?
> 
> Should I have tar-edev erything like I was told to?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
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