Re: Network manager freezing on Ruby2.5 OpenSuSE 15.6

Hello,

In the Message; 

  Subject    : Re: Network manager freezing on Ruby2.5 OpenSuSE 15.6
  Message-ID : <[email protected]>
  Date & Time: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:20:04 -0500

[DCR] == David C Rankin <[email protected]> has written:

DCR>  On 6/27/26 8:54 PM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
CS> # ls -l /etc/hosts
CS> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4769485 Jun  4 09:05 /etc/hosts
 
MN> > Thanks.
 
MN> > I think the hosts file is too large, which is causing the freeze.

DCR>  Holy Cow!

DCR>  $ ls -al /etc/hosts
DCR>  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 674 Jun  9 04:25 /etc/hosts

DCR>    I think Masaru has found a 4MB problem. I'll let Masaru advise
DCR>    on how to proceed, me, I'd just delete it and restart the
DCR>    network, but I'm old-school.

DCR>    I'd like to know how Masaru new to check the size with ls
DCR>    rather than to cat as normal to check the content. I suspect
DCR>    this may not be the first issue with a large /etc/hosts.

When I searched DuckDuckGo using the keywords "openSUSE yast freeze
network config", it showed this as the very first result.

	   https://forums.opensuse.org/t/using-large-etc-hosts-file-freezes-yast-network-config/148892

I, too, found out about this for the first time. (^^;;

Best Regards.

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