[cobalt-users] Qube3 Gui Problems

["dr. mikey" <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all,

so, we just moved from our trusty qube2 (which developed a nasty hicup in
the power adapter that would cause it to crash whenever it got too hot) to a
brand spankin new qube3.  now, i'm having trouble with the admin gui, where
i can view almost any page (except the updates page in BlueLinQ), but if i
actually try to change something it just hangs indefinately, never actually
making the changes.

for example, if i add a user, or change any setting and and then select
"save changes", it just sits there but doesn't change anything.  the browser
continues to display the message "Please wait for the changes to complete."
(while it claims that it is connecting to the server and waiting for an
answer) but it never refreshes.  eventually i just get fed up and navigate
to a new page, which is no problem (i.e., neither the browser nor my client
system apear to be affected, just the qube's gui), but when i go back to the
original admin page i can see that the changes did not get saved.

this includes rebooting.  if i ask it to reboot in the gui, it sits there
requesting my patience, but it never does anything.  if i manually power
down the qube and then re-boot, everything seems fine for a little while,
then eventually it goes back to it's unresponsive state.

more details:  the qube3 shipped with 32mb ram, to which we promptly added
another 256.  it is lightly used, with about 35 email accounts/users and
almost no web traffic.  it functions as our dsl gateway and router, email
server, and dhcp.  ftp, dns, snmp are all off.  telnet is on, but only for
admin and i only connect via the lan (not over the internet).  the only
third-party app i have loaded so far is portfwd (to forward tcp and udp
traffic to internal machines).

fwiw, all updates have been installed as listed on the cobalt site.

top shows the following:

9:47am  up 6 days, 21:24,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.1% user,  1.3% system,  0.0% nice, 98.4% idle
Mem:  290080K av, 279104K used, 10976K free, 62136K shrd, 192756K buff
Swap: 131532K av,     16K used, 131516K free              21636K cached

any ideas?

thanks for the help,

mikey.

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