I encountered exactly the same issue encountered by Kevin including the
contents of the log files, and worked around it the same way he did.
Thanks, Kevin!
In my case NIS servers are not local. Could that have caused ypbind to
get backgrounded?
Though that doesn't explain why it binds fine with n
the same thing happens in firefox 3.0b5 on ubuntu 8.04.
Firefox freezes and so does thunderbird. I turned off a whole bunch of plugins
and the problem vanished.
I have flash plugin enabled and a vlc plugin enabled. And this is working fine.
I turned off
a) default plugin,
b) demo print plugin
