Re: xdm delays

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

MaD dUCK wrote:
> 
> hey,
> 
> when i log in through xdm, i am presented with a precisely 60 second
> long delay before the first line of my .xsession is executed. in fact,
> using root privileges to modify the xdm files, i found out that
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup_0 (which calls /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup) is
> executed and finishes, but then the 60 second delay kicks in before
> either of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession_0 and /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession is
> executed. so the problem isn't within the user configuration but
> within the xdm configuration, and the 60 seconds lead me to think that
> it is some form of name resolution problem or otherwise network
> related, and my guess goes for XDMCP - which i haven't configured, but
> port 6000 is open... furthermore, my name resolution in terms of DNS
> and whatever works perfectly fine.
> 
> any ideas where the problem is, and more importantly, how to fix it???

  I had the same problem (the same symptoms) and IIRC it was fixed by
commenting out the font server line (I do not run font server):

        # FontPath      "unix/:7100"                    # local font
server


	erik