KDE refuses new processes when network goes away

[Par Leijonhufvud]

This is on a labtop (IBM Thinkpad R50e) running 5.3-RELEASE.

When I start it up with network up everything is fine, but if the
network dies (we have a slightly dodgy ADSL, which periodically plays
yo-yo) it will refuse to open new processes or windows.

Is it (likely to be) a KDE, xopen or freebsd problem?

/Par

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Par Leijonhufvud                               par at hunter-gatherer.org
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