When X does....nothing.

[dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

Interestinger and interestinger..... :)

Should /sbin/config show me a 'lo' device at 127.0.0.1?  Cuz it don't.

During bootup I get an error message from 'arping' saying that something
is already listening on 127.0.0.1.

Since a variety of my problems this week seem network related (this X
thing, as well as my listening on a socket problem) I'm wondering if this
is a possible root cause.

I have the loopback device (config_blk_dev_loop=y) enabled, but that
doesn't seem to be it.  From the description in the kernel docs that's
definitely not it, but I reach the end of my understanding at about
this point. I thought lo was a/the local loopback device.

I went back for a moment to test my server socket listener ysing the
"netstat from another window" suggestion.  And I see something like
this:

    Local			Foreign			State
 0  *:32769
 1  192.168.40.191:32770	localhost.localdo:32769	SYN_SENT

And it's basically stuck there.   So I'm listening, but unable
to communicate with myself?

Duane

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, John Chambers wrote:

> Duane Morin writes:
> |
> | Here's some interesting new information I just discovered last night when
> | I was home without a net connection.  X works just fine.  When I came into
> | work this morning and eth0 came up, it went back to doing its hang thing.
> | So Gnome must be trying to do something over the net before it starts up?
> | Something that it can't do in a short period of time?
> 
> Hmmm ... Maybe you can get a clue by switching to a different desktop
> (CTL-ALT-F1 or such), logging in, and running "netstat -a|grep ^tcp".
> If Gnome has a Net connection, you should see its  address,  and  you
> can ask why it would be connecting to that machine. Maybe the address
> or hostname of the other end can be found in some config file.
> 
> Or maybe someone has snuck a bit of spyware into your Gnome ...
> 
> 
> 
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