Last night I finally gave up and went to bed because Netscape had thoroughly confused the bejesus out of me. I will give the problem first then the system info later. Starting Netscape regardless of window manager (command line call.. etc.) Netscape will either start minutes afterwards or start and hang to be killed off miserably. My start page if you must is "file:/usr/doc/" After about 3 to 5 minutes it finally lets me do normal things like highlight my bookmarks, the hyper links, or any useable "button" on the netscape screen. I have removed netscape completely from my system (both the .netscape directories and the /opt/netscape directory (post rpm --nodeps -e netscape). Reinstalled netscape and even repeated above steps with netscape-4.72-23.src.rpm (via rpm --rebuild) < was not original ver. of netscape. I have had this box running fine for awhile now and this just suddenly happened last night. Other monkeez in the wrench: I have eth0 point to a gateway to get on the net. tcpdump -i eth0 shows that when netscape is called it does an arp request and my 5 port hub goes crazy. strace netscape shows it pauses for a long time looking for the primary dns and secondary dns from my ISP. I have removed my network device so ifconfig has no entry except lo. Usually I have a connection to the net, and I would probably not notice it was looking for it's path to the net. What could be telling netscape it has to try to establish a net connection every time? Netscape is configured to "direct connect" , I.E. no info on proxy, etc.. I even reconfigured netscape to start with a "blank" page and it still does this. No other computer does this that I can see (running same distro / OS) It also does not matter if I run netscape via user, (thinking some root process that I had was doing this .. ps auxf shows nothing pertinent to my problem). I am about T -2hr from wiping this from my hdd and telling my box to go sit in the corner until it can play nicely with the other linux children. Pertinent system info: SuSE6.4 /etc/hosts have all entries set for my network /etc/resolv.conf shows only nameserver and search info. I may have left something out that I checked, but for the most part this is kicking my buttocks. Thanks John ===== "Do the world a favor and install Linux for a "Linux Buddy" today!" ...Where do you want to go NOW! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/