[plug] Thunderbird/Firefox(cont)

[Dave Dartnall]

Eric S wrote:

>David Dartnall wrote:
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>>On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:59 am, Russell Steicke wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:09:37PM +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
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>>>>It's me again Russell,
>>>>Sorry for the time lapse - here are the files you suggested.
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>>>Well, this is strange.  Ping and firefox are generating identical DNS
>>>queries (except for the query ID, which is to be expected) and
>>>receiving queries that are identical except for the IP address they
>>>requested.
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>>>Google turned up this: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14757298
>>>Could you try the two suggestions in the first message on that page?
>>>First disable ipv6 in firefox and see if that fixes the problem.
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>>Thank you, Russell and Eric for your suggestions...
>>This what happened:
>>Editing /etc/sysconfig/network to read NETWORKING_IPV6=no followed by
>>'service network restart' had no effect but under mozilla using
>>'about:config' and setting 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true and removing
>>kat resulted in much better bootup with no violent disk action at the end.
>>The only delay during bootup was (and still is) trying to bring eth1 up.
>>Firefox was ok accessed all the sites I tried.
>>Thunderbird opened and started trying to access the mail server and then
>>winked out.
>>Tried Firefox again then and it froze while attempting to connect to
>>cyberknights. Worked ok though after next reboot with file system
>>integrity check.
>>Thunderbird behaved a bit better this time, queried the server
>>certificate, asked for the password downloaded 5 emails and then winked
>>out. Thereafter timed out, and firefox froze...
>>Two more reboots:
>>Thunderbird ok, downloaded more mail and then winked out again while
>>attempting to send a test email.
>>So I pulled the side panel off the computer, pulled the heat sink & fan
>>off the cpu, cleaned the dust out of it and the fans (not much dust and
>>all fans were spinning) and wriggled all cards and memory and reinstalled.
>>So this had better not wink out when I try and send it!
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>>And we'll see what happens!
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>>Meantime what's the score with kat?
>>And what have we done by disablinng IP (should it be a lower case V?) v6?
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>firstly make sure you have a carriage return after the last line
>of /etc/sysconfig/networkkat short version: a KDE indexing system (supposedly fixed in the updates)
>ie its a resource hog and not very useful
>see here for more info
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kat_Desktop_Search_Environment
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>IPV6 yes in that file it should be uppercase
>you havent disabled IP you have disabled IPV6
>in short its a future Internet protocol
>see here for more info
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
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>For anybody else on the list interested in mandriva 2006
>it has 3 serious issues on the original cds
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>1. xorg is very broken you should configure urpmi
>and update as soon as you install.
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>2. kat is broken you should update/remove it
>I remove it
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>3. IPV6 has been a problem on all the installs I've done
>I recommend disabling it.
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>cheers
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Thank you gentlemen, I now have a stable system (fingers crossed) - xorg 
upgraded, kat removed and IPV6 disabled. What a difference that's made!

Thunderbird even spellchecks now!

regards and thanks again.
Dave Dartnall