on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:54:43PM +0100, Martin WHEELER (mwheeler@startext.co.uk) wrote: > OK, I give up. > > Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load and > kick in? > [Celeron 433, 64M, ATI Rage 128 16M, debian 2.2r3+testing, upgraded > daily.] > > I'm flummoxed. > It doesn't appear to be a memory-swapping problem -- more of a > security-permissions related thing, as no-one but root can now run > startx; and last week I was getting error messages about suspicious > ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix. (No longer reproducible.) > > I don't know enough about X to sort this one out -- can anyone help? I usually suspect DNS timeouts on long startup lags related to X or other network services. Have you changed any of: /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, or your local nameserver configurations, recently? Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ 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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