[plug] Thunderbird/Firefox(cont)

[Eric S]

David Dartnall wrote:

> It's me again Russell,
> Sorry for the time lapse - here are the files you suggested.
> The system became quite flaky - must have been something I did but I can't
> pinpoint just what. So I reinstalled using the current partitions and
> without reformatting /home. There are 3 drives on my machine and hdb is
> totally reserved for Mandriva.
> Tethereal-firefox.pcap resulted from trying to access google.
> Tethereal-ping.pcap was the output from pinging google.
> Tethereal-firefoxOptus.pcap firefox unsuccessfully accessing Optus.
> Couple of points:
> After the reinstall Firefox accessed all the websites that I tried but
> Google Now tonight it fails on all...
> The boot sequence takes a long time with furious disk activity after the
> desktop is fully displayed - maybe a minute or more and if I try any work
> before it stops the system crashes.
> I opened the Computer Angels' Computer Training flyer in ghostscript (PDF)
> downloaded as noted in today's CA email to the group, and similar disk
> activity occurred when I tried to print it - to the extent that it was so
> busy the cursor froze for a while. Eventually printed ok tho'.
> If you're able to suggest what I may have done wrong, it would be
> appreciated but I know your time is valuable and I'm sure I'm at fault
> somewhere. regards
> Dave Dartnall

Sorry to jump in but could you post the result of
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network

also 

# ifconfig



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Eric S