PadLocke wrote:
>
> This one was an enigma till I "fixed" it.
> Mandrake dist. 6.0. Used kppp to dial into my ISP and all was well. The problem
> was that I couldn't launce anything while I was connected. No email client,
> browser, filemanager, terminal, nothing. Thing was though, that any app that
> was running before I connected would run normally, unless it launched a seperate
> thread. Then, of course, that thread wouldn't run.
> My "fix"
> I was installing a new kernel and messed up. Of course I didn't make a backup
> of my working kernel. That would have been the smart thing to do right? Anyway.
> I had to reinstall from my dist. CD and everything worked the way it was
> supposed to work after that. I could launce whatever I wanted before and after
> and during my connection to my ISP.
Reinstallation is hardly a fix for the simple problem at hand. You got
lucky on the second try is all...
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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