Got a weird one that I'm hoping someone can shed some light on.... I'm using Thunderbird email on SBC's Yahoo of a DSL service. Recently started having a problem that whenever I "wake up" from a hibernation, I can no longer connect to the pop server to get email - until I re-boot the machine! Ending Thunderbird and restarting it does nothing.
I'm assuming there must be some stat file or cached password or something, but I have not been able to find it....
I am using Thunderbird so that I can have one email repository from both Linux and Winders, and I should probably mention that this behaviour is generally observed in Winders, can't say I've been able to boot into Linux for a couple weeks, so don't really know if it happens there also or not.....
Thoughts?
Chris.
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:22 pm, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
... whenever I "wake up" from a hibernation, I can no longer connect to the pop server to get email - until I re-boot the machine!
I'll bet there's a "hung" connection to the mail server. Using something like ps ax | grep pop or | grep mail, look for an attempted connection that didn't get a reply from the hibernating NIC.
You shouldn't need to reboot, just find and kill the hung process after killing Thunderbird. You would probably find that logging out of X or killing it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace fixed the problem.
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