Slowdown on bootup

[Howard Mann <howardm@xmission.com>]

Hi,

I'm suddenly experiencing a weird slowdown on bootup.
Things proceed normally until:

Starting system log daemon :  syslogd

Then, it hangs for a long time until I get syslogd klogd

The test of the bootup process then proceeds at a _glacial_ pace until
I get the login prompt. I then login O.K.

I have an alias   "alias x='startx -dpi 100' " When I type "x" it
takes a while to start up X, which is something new. Thereafter,
things seem O.K.

The only " major" things I've done recently involve editing
/etc/init.d/network and /etc/nsswitch.conf.

/etc/hosts has a line for my hostname/domain name.

? any ideas what this is all about.

I use Slink; sysklogd 1.3-31 ; kernel 2.2.12

Thanks,

Howard Mann.