[plug] Web browsing wierdness

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 20 October 2002 09:53 pm, Adrian Blockley wrote:
> If it try Mozilla to reach the site the throbber throbs and the status
> bar says that its sending the request to freshmeat. Other than that it
> does nothing. It doesn't even seem to time out; it just sits there
> spinning its wheels, so to speak. I have used lcrzoex to try and
> download the freshmeat and slashdot index pages but seem to get no
> response (more wheel spinning).

> Frustratingly enough I can boot into Win95 and it allows me to view
> both slashdot and freshmeat but I really don't want to boot into
> anything winblown to get my daily fix.

If you run through your own Squid, try zapping it's cache (stop squid, do a 
`squid -z', start squid). It may have taken one too many impacts (e.g. power 
failure on unjournalled FS) near the waterline.

Cheers; Leon