This is just a thought, and I have no real evidence, but the problems started on my systems on or around the time I installed Eclipse and Python 3.2 to do some exploratory software work, just learning my way around Python. I also installed Pygame, which had to be compiled and installed manually to upgrade it to 3.2. Could there be a connection here?
Since I rebuilt the machine that now works, it has all that stuff re-installed, so this really is just a speculation.
This is just a thought, and I have no real evidence, but the problems started on my systems on or around the time I installed Eclipse and Python 3.2 to do some exploratory software work, just learning my way around Python. I also installed Pygame, which had to be compiled and installed manually to upgrade it to 3.2. Could there be a connection here?
Since I rebuilt the machine that now works, it has all that stuff re-installed, so this really is just a speculation.