Network itself is fine, everything still works with network, I'm still chatting on say Skype and any of my open Chrome tabs work however I just can't spawn new processes or subprocesses (e.g. I can't get a new terminal even if I have Terminal.app open, same deal with tabs and Chrome). It isn't a network joined laptop, it is a personal laptop just on the staff wireless network which happens to be particularly chatty from all the Windows boxes going "hey do you speak my language?", "do you still speak my language?", "whose the master browser for joenet? can i be the master browser for joenet? lets have an election!" and "am I getting annoying yet?" which spams up my logs with Firewall notifications.
Sam Moffatt http://pasamio.id.au On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Alex Blewitt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 Mar 2010, at 01:18, Sam Moffatt wrote: > >> It happens. I've been lately having weird issues with my MBP where >> apps will refuse to launch but existing apps work perfectly fine. >> In both cases it occurred whilst I was >> connect to my University network but I fear this is a coincidence. > > FWIW problems with networks can often cause a number of delays. For example, > looking up DNS entries may timeout causing delays. > > Secondly, if the University is Mac-aware then they may be providing a > /Network/Applications or /Network/Library share that gets automatically > mounted by your client. If that's the case, and the program look sfor options > on the /Network domain as well as the local one (e.g. > ~/Library/Preferences/foo.plist, /Network/Library/Preferences/foo.plist, > /System/Library/Preferences/foo.plist) then this can introduce network > dependencies on an app that would otherwise not need it. > > Lastly, I've had problems where I've put in an explicit DNS resolver (like > Google's 8.8.8.8) and using DHCP to give me an IP address. If DHCP gives you > a DNS entry too, and Google's one is uncontactable, then you can again get > problems. (I also seem to recall that with 10.5, supplying an additional DNS > server appended to the DHCP provided one; but for 10.6, the setting appears > to replace any DHCP supplied one. > > Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacFUSE" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en.
