Resource temporarily unavailable

Hi,

I am using
Linux version 2.6.3-16mdk ((E-Mail Removed)) (gcc version
3.3.2

(Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Fri Aug 13 16:33:14 MDT 2004

and sometimes (usually the first time i try), I get

connect: Resource temporarily unavailable

when trying to make network connections.

This happens (for example) if I do a ping www.bbc.co.uk - the first time it
fails, then

it works:

[root@scoop proc]# ping www.bbc.co.uk
connect: Resource temporarily unavailable
[root@scoop proc]# ping www.bbc.co.uk
PING www.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www5.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=248
time=27.7 ms

--- www.bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.709/27.709/27.709/0.000 ms

It is not limited to ping - looking at my postfix logs, it has been
affecting Postfix

as well:

syslog:Sep 2 11:30:12 scoop postfix/smtp[16033]: A26F62CCFE:
to=<(REMOVED)@(REMOVED)>,

relay=none, delay=31999, status=deferred (connect to
mailhost.zen.co.uk[212.23.3.98]:

Resource temporarily unavailable)

I thought it may be an interupt clash, but a cat of /proc/interupt shows
that the NIC

has a interput to itself:

CPU0
0: 48017289 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 774 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 170 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 866643 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 60 IO-APIC-edge ide1
16: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
17: 0 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH5
18: 169084 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, saa7146 (1)
19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd
21: 678036 IO-APIC-level eth0
22: 766231 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, saa7146 (0)
23: 734575 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd
NMI: 0
LOC: 48018946
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

I have googled a lot for this, and cannot find any answers. Can anyone tell
me where to

start looking please?

thanks

George

Forgot to mention, my ethernet chipset is

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe194e000, 00:10:a7:07:a8:f4, IRQ 21
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

(The motherboard has onboard gigabyte ethernet, but I couldnt get Linus to
recognise it, so I put in a cheap 100 card)

cheers

g

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:04:25 +0100, George Styles wrote:
> I am using Linux version 2.6.3-16mdk
>((E-Mail Removed)) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux
>10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Fri Aug 13 16:33:14 MDT 2004 and sometimes
>(usually the first time i try), I get connect: Resource temporarily
>unavailable

See answer given in first news group you posted to.


net etiquette/Newsgroup tip:

Multi-posting is considered antisocial on Usenet.

If you want to send the same message to more than one newsgroup, CROSSPOST!
And if you crosspost, provide a Followup newsgroup.

Some will argue that you not even crosspost because of the amount/type
of newsgroups that we have today.

As an example to post to "comp.os.linux.security", and
"alt.security", use the following Newsgroups line:
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.security,alt.security
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.security

See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

You conserve resources on NNTP servers, and other readers
see the follow up answers and do not have to provide the same answer.
Also, once a reader has "read" a message in one group, they do
not have to see it again unless someone has provided a follow up.

Sorry! I thought that crossposting was considered 'bad', thats why I went to
the trouble to post it
4 times

g

George Styles wrote:

> Sorry! I thought that crossposting was considered 'bad', thats why I went
> to the trouble to post it
> 4 times
>
> g

If you cross post, once a message has been read in one forum, you won't see
it again in another. If you multipost, each message will be read, even
though it's identical to the other copies.

--

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Gotcha next time I will x-post rather than multi post.

thanks to everyone on usenet who solved my problem i am having happy
penguin once again

g