I am having a very strange problem running Lynx on my other computer. I
downloaded the .deb from Debian stable to this computer. Here, it runs
fine as a normal user (haven't tried it as root).
Then I use FTP to transfer the .deb to my other computer over my LAN.
dpkg -i lynx<version info>.deb worked without any complaint. Lynx runs
fine as root, but when I try to run it as a normal user, it just sits
there. I type lynx and hit enter, and the cursor moves to the next line
and nothing more happens. I find the info below rather interesting as
well:
before:
$ uptime
10:02am up 46 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.15
after 1 minute:
$ ps
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1058 1 S 0:00 -bash
1063 p0 S 0:00 -bash
1070 1 R 1:00 lynx
1075 p0 R 0:00 ps
$ uptime
10:03am up 48 min, 2 users, load average: 0.63, 0.20, 0.19
Now, it looks like Lynx has ran the CPU quite a bit, but the computer
hardly even bothers to access the hard disk during this time. This is an
AMD K6 under rather light load. Lynx loads in well under a minute on my
old 386!
I have a hard time believing a software bug, as I believe lynx used to run
just fine on this machine. I had goofed something up yesterday, so I
dumped everything and re-installed.
Here's the before and after on the memory:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30264 26352 3912 8920 380 21188
-/+ buffers/cache: 4784 25480
Swap: 128484 1076 127408
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30264 26356 3908 8936 380 21188
-/+ buffers/cache: 4788 25476
Swap: 128484 1072 127412
Any suggestions that might help me get to the bottom of this would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Patrick Olson
