On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:09:16 +0000
David
Now we differ. Yes F/s starts up automatically, but the system appears to freeze, it hasn't but it is extremely slow, to the extent that it takes about 30 secs to bring any window to the front. On the kinternet log it gets as far as pppd secondary address DNS xxx.xxx.xx.xxx and stays like that, then I get pppd terminating due to lack of activity and it disconnects. The system is then back up to speed, except for F/s that takes forever to repaint its window, 30 secs +. It seems that F/s is slowing the system loading it this way.
Rebooting and doing it manually, if I load F/s just after ip-up has run, then it will prevent the browser connecting. If I stop it and get the browser going, start F/s (this is just using the stop start buttons) then it is fine.
Have you set yours for masquerading?
My arrangements are simple but a little unusual in that I run VMware because I have no other choice than to use the Devil's Own OS for some stuff. I allow the virtual Win98 machine running within my linux box to access the outside world by masquerading, but the whole arrangement is of my own devising - the words Robinson and Heath spring to mind (though not necessarily in that order). Dampsquib shows F/s complaining about a whole lot of missing stuff, but I look upon its discomfort with a certain sadistic satifaction, because my only aim has been to get it to show its miserable face by running ip-up.local rather than procuring that it should work as advertised in any other respect. Joking apart, I certainly do not see any of the symptoms you describe and I imagine that there must be some interaction between the SuSE firewall, F/s and netscape that is causing the problem (it does not take Donald Knuth to work that one out). Now that you know what is autoloading Netscape, I would personally be very tempted to see what effect it would have to stop that autoload from taking place. If, however, you actually need Netscape to autoload I understand that the intellectual satisfaction might not be worth the effort.
As an alternative solution, I have found where in Yast2 Netscape is loading. I
want to put Netscape & firestarter to load one after the other. Can you load 2
programs on one line? I tried netscape; firestarter. This loads netscape, and when it is shut down loads firestarter, not quite what I want.
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