Re: startx (after upgrade) dials modem before running X
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:35:15AM -0600, markzimm@rmi.net wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> After upgrading some X-window packages last night I cannot start X without
> waiting for the modem to dial out and connect. It seems to be doing a name
> lookup since, if I get back out of X and hang up the modem and then do a
> startx immediately, there is no dial-out since the name lookup is still
> cached. A few hours later, though, the problem is back. The packages that
> updated last night were mostly fonts, but xbase-clients updated also.
>
> I am running slink, and my X packages come fronm:
>
> deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ xfree86-334-slink/
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to stop it?
If it is really a DNS lookup then the easiest way would be to put some more
information to your /etc/hosts. You have to think out yourself which host
could it be looking up :)
hope this helps
Marcin
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