nj <halbtaxabo-njlinux@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm recently upgraded the kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.3.
>
> Everything works, but Mozilla is now unusable. When I go to a URL, it
> just sits there with (e.g.)
>
> Resolving host login.yahoo.com
>
> at the bottom in the status frame, for about 40 seconds. [...]

Do other programs show this behaivour? lynx, wget etc.

Is login.yahoo.com still up?

Can you get to other sites?

Can you get to other SSL sites? I'm guessing that login.yahoo.com is an
SSL site (https://). If its only SSL sites that are effected, and
probably also ssh, then perhaps its running out of entropy. Does your
hardware have a random number generator? Do you have support for it
loaded? If not, using an entropy gathering daemon may help.

> It's as though it's waiting for some stupid timeout. But where do I
> look?

Easiest way would be to use strace to see what its doing. Find the PID
of mozilla (`pstree -p $USER' and look for the mozilla-bin process),
then run `strace -p PID -e trace=network,file,read', and report back
where its hanging. Actually, since the trace will be quite large, I
would suggest you send it directly to me, and I'll weed it and post it
to the list, if you can't understand it yourself.

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