weird! harddrive busy all the time!

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Am Sonntag, den 17.12.2006, 11:12 -0500 schrieb beinan li:
> Machine: AMD 64
> OS: kubuntu 6.06 x86
> Syndrome: 
> Ever since logged in, the harddrive seems to be undergoing a lot of
> activities
> even though I'm running just firefox, kate, gaim, and terminal. 
> Looking at the KSystemLog, I got these suspicious messages: 
> 12/17/2006 11:07:46 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    No DHCPOFFERS
> received.
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:07:46 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    No working
> leases in persistent database - sleeping. 
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:10:36 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:10:40 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:10:51 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:11:05 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:11:17 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:11:32 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    DHCPDISCOVER on
> eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 
> 
> 12/17/2006 11:11:37 AM    kakyo-desktop    dhclient    No DHCPOFFERS
> received.
> 
> 
> Any ideas as to how i'm gonna solve this?
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Beinan

Your box is configured for dhcp and is not getting a lease.
So.. if you are using dhcp make sure your box can see the dhcp server
(it might be your adsl router, if you have one).
If it doesn't use dhcp, configure a static ip address.