Weird GNOME behaviour (in Dapper and Edgy)

[Severin Schoepke]

Marius Gedminas schrieb:
>
> That's strange.  Something like this might happen if your loopback
> network interface is not mounted.  Could you send us the output of
> 'ifconfig'?
>   

Here is ifconfig output from my desktop machine (using dhcp configured 
eth0 for networking):

schoepke at selle:~/uni/masterarbeit/trunk/sources$ ifconfig
eth0      Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:14:2A:96:FB:99 
          inet Adresse:192.168.123.100  Bcast:192.168.123.255  
Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::214:2aff:fe96:fb99/64 
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:25689 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19304 errors:1009 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:28848282 (27.5 MiB)  TX bytes:2568196 (2.4 MiB)
          Interrupt:217 Basisadresse:0x2000

lo        Protokoll:Lokale Schleife 
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
          RX bytes:200 (200.0 b)  TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)


> I do not think that's likely.  The symptoms would be different.  I
> suspect networking.
>   

Someone suggested using a static ip instead of dhcp a while ago. But the 
problem occured when I used a static ip too...

>> But now I found a new indcation: Everytime this happens, there's a line like
>>
>> Jan 27 12:00:44 selle -- MARK --
>>
>> in the syslog... Does anyone know which program/daemon/service is 
>> printing this line? Maybe this app is the source of all evil?
>>     
>
> No.  That message is added to syslog every 20 minutes, just to show that
> the machine is still up and working.
>   

You are right that this message is printed periodically... But it's not 
every 20 mins. Since I booted today at 12.38 it was printed at 12.58, 
13.38, 13.58, 14.38 and 14.58...


- Severin