Interesting...that gets me five connections, although it still doesn't seem to start using CPU again.
If I terminate the above and re-run via standard Mac "double-click-on-app", bitcoin starts up and
I'm now seeing 1 connection (instead of none) ... but still no CPU use.

thanks,

Stan

Hi,

I'm new to bitcoin.  I googled/searched to see if this was a known problem, but most hits I found dealt with people who
had received 0 blocks.  I'm using a Mac Pro, OSX 10.6.7, bitcoin 0.3.21-beta.

I installed bitcoin and started it.  Some hours later, I noticed all my CPUs were active
with bitcoin.  But ... a few minutes later, I noticed it had 129687 blocks and it was now using no CPU
and said "not connected". 
I stopped/restarted bitcoin several times, no change ... still "not connected".
(Yes, checked "Generate" after each restart.)

Since I was originally working fine, I can assume there's no firewall problem
(and we made no local network changes today

Is this a known problem (e.g., is there a limited supply of blocks that can lead to half-hour or
longer pauses in bitcoin)?

thanks,
Stan