[plug] Thunderbird/Firefox(cont)

[David Dartnall]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:29 pm, Eric S wrote:
> David Dartnall wrote:
> > 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'.
> > Dave Dartnall

Thanks Eric

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

NETWORKING=yes

> # ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:52:9C:8F  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe52:9c8f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:12284 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:32245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:7667686 (7.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2529816 (2.4 MiB)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd400 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:53:E4:BB  
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe53:e4bb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:20
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xde00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:16435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16435 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:32123632 (30.6 MiB)  TX bytes:32123632 (30.6 MiB)

Dave D