On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:38:37 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Beartooth posted > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > excerpted [...] >> What's wrong, and what do I do about it? > Often, the problem is a bad socket open. [...] > The problem is that there are several steps to opening up that > connection >[...] > Sometimes the loose ends > remain until the application that started the broken one terminates.) > That appears to be what happened to you. Restarting PAN allowed the > kernel to clean up the broken sockets and new ones to be opened. [...]
If I read you right, it was most probably yet another cracked app on Adelphia the Utterly Accursed. And it's the only broadband I can get ... <sigh> So closing and reopening Pan was the one thing I could have done, right? Shades of M$ .... <sigh> Many thanks! At least I feel less helpless, and less of a fool ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User : Fedora Core 4 [etc] I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
