On Friday 17 Feb 2006 14:02, Duncan wrote: > Guy Harrison posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [snip] > > Just after I posted yesterday, my "home icon" reappeared in the > > kicker, complete with its keyboard shortcut. I am now fully restored! > > <G> > > Fully restored =8^), but still in a very disturbing situation, as you > don't know what caused the problem nor how to fix it if it happens > again! =8^( > > Equally if not more disturbing to folks like me, who like to trace > down such things and find the explanation, so they understand what > their computer is doing, that information is missing ATM! I don't like > a computer doing stuff unexpected an unexplained, particularly when it > appears to be non-deterministic as well! That disturbs the very > stability of my known universe, from my perspective, and I find it very > difficult to sleep or carry on an otherwise normal life until I resolve > the situation. It's not unusual for me to spend 30 hour marathons > without sleep and with only the minimum necessary food, water, breaks, > and interruptions for work, tracing such issues. Only when I have it > resolved is all right in my little universe again, and I can catch up > on food and sleep and the like. =8^) Obviously, I identify with your > distress, then, at not having an explanation for this, and find it > disturbing here, too, not only for you, but as the thought occurs that > that if it happened to you, it could easily happen to me, too.
I'll be repeating stuff here but now it's (ahem) "sorted", in an attempt to ease your sleepless nights a little I'll describe the connection... The work machine is a w2k box sat on internal 10Mb connection behind a corporate firewall, details of which are unknown, to a much faster outside connection. This work machine also runs sophos (v5.x) which can be very intrusive, although I suspect it is our maintainance guys which are the cause of that intrusiveness. It being w2k, I run cygwin and it is via cygwin X server that I connect home. From work machine I "ssh -YC" to my FreeBSD box and then "ssh -XC" into this debian box (FreeBSD box is a bit ancient so no -Y option). The FreeBSD box is directly connected to my cable modem. It has two network cards and runs samba & NAT + ipfw. It's other FSBD card comes out into a router into which my internal network is connected. There's three machines attached, one of which is this debian box. Another is my wife's w2k machine, the third is the "pending FreeBSD box". A further complication is my ISP. I do not have a static IP address. My IP is on a 2 hour DHCP lease. However, the assigned IP never changes & hasn't done even across power failures, which it theoretically should have, had the cable modem renegotiated on powerup. I've remained connected for many hours from work with no apparent issues. I would have expected the 2 hour DHCP renew on FreeBSD to cause a break but it never has. If there is a next time for this problem, I'll try and look when I get home to see if there's any dangling external connections. Hmm, methinks I've complicated it further! :-) TIA Guy PS. I know the feeling (-ansi -pedantic -W -Wall -Werror -g -O0) !!! -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
