Re: DEBIAN-Re: logging in takes ages
Dale Scheetz writes:
> > My problem, since upgrading is similiar. I get the prompt, enter username
> > and password and then wait. It seems to be account related. I can go to
> > other virtual terminals and log in as other users, but if I try the same
> > user, that
> > terminal will also hang. Typicall hang times seem to be as bad as 30 seconds.
> >
> > Note, I almost always log in as root, so my problem may be root specific.
>
> I had this same problem on my R6 system, even after upgrading base and
> devel the problem continued. After upgrading some of the admin (I don't
> remember which, but cron was among them) packages, the problem went away.
> Seems to be some longwinded bookkeeping going on.
>
> Try upgrading the admin section and see if that fixes it.
Not the complete section. Just sysklogd. This seems to be the well known
sysklog problem again. Simply removing the /dev/xconsole in /etc/syslog.conf
may work, too.
Michael
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