Most commonly, DNS lookup or reverse lookup. This was a frequently iterated bug in early RedHat releases, particularly sendmail timeouts on startup. A cow-orker reported inability to start X on a laptop due to a missing localhost or hostname entry in his /etc/hosts file, or similar. The machine would start up when networked as resolution was provided over the network, but couldn't run X in standalone operation. Frustrating. Various similar issues may be at work, you might want to watch netstat or other output while attempting to start X, though in truth I haven't done this myself. Any tips on hunting down random networking config bugs of this sort? on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:12:25AM -0800, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote: > I have the same problem. what kind of DNS issues? I can ping > localhost, jojda (which is my hostanme), 127.0.0.1 just fine... > > also, sometime when I restarted X (the old 3.x) when using xdm, it > would take a long time (minutes!) to restart. but never when it was > started for the first time... > > any more specific/other ideas? > > erik > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 04:02:18AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman (shulman@caltech.edu) wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > > > > MAS> Okay, it appears to be working now. > > > > > > Well, more or less. Everything runs fine with `startx', but I'm > > > having some peculiar difficulties with xdm. Specifically, > > > > > > 1. xdm now takes over a minute from when the daemon is started, either > > > by init or manually, to when the login widget appears. Is this > > > normal now, or is there anything I can do to speed it up? > > > > Suspect DNS issues. > > > > -- > > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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