Ok, I am responding to my own e-mail here. Sorry about that, but I fixed it, and my original message hasn't even hit the group yet.
But check this, because this is the weirdest thing. I'm running sid, like I said in the previous e-mail. I have a cable modem and have been using dhcpcd as my dhcp client. I tried dhcp-client awhile back and it didn't work. I don't know why, but I stuck with dhcpcd, even though it is now not in sid anymore. Today I saw that dhcp3-client was in sid, so I thought, what the hell, I'll install that and see if it works (keeping a copy of the dhcpcd deb just in case). Anyway, so I installed it (and dhcp3-common) and it connected. Cool. Just because I'm paranoid, I reboot, to make sure it was set up to start at boot time. It connected, and that is when I started having problems getting evolution, gabber and galeon running. So, I though the problem was with some package I had just upgraded. But for the hell of it, I reinstalled dhcpcd and uninstalled the dhcp3 packages. Rebooted, and not my gnome apps work again! Ok, so maybe I'm not thinknig about this in the right way, but how can a dhcp client screw up some gnome apps. I mean, all of the ones I use connect to the internet, but they didn't even get that far when I tried to start them up. I got a splash screen with Evolution and that was it. Can someone enlighten me? thanks, jonathan
