Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

devosc wrote:
> is it something to do with my iptables??? yesterday prior to this
> problem I heard a clicking sound inside the machine ??? and then all
> of a sudden my screen frooze up and after a few seconds the only thing
> I could do was move the mouse around but could close any windows
> etc.... so had to hard reboot which then prompted me with the cmd line
> login....
>
> I question about th iptables because I tried to boot via the install
> discs and on one setting it complained about iptables....

Not likely.  Iptables filters network access and has nothing to do with 
the desktop.