Fwd: xdm delays

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

guys,
the below problem is still giving me a headache. xdm takes 60 seconds
before it looks at Xsession and .xsession, and this is due to
requests for the font server, which runs on RPC rather than IPC... i
am not running portmap, port 111 is closed, and there is no font
server present on the system nor referenced in XF86Config. how can i
make this problem go away???

thanks,
martin

----- Forwarded message from MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> -----

found the problem and am now questioning the sanity of the world.

so i started portmap to see if it fixed it. no, it did not. but the
requests were for port 111, so portmap had to be involved. then i
noticed this font server thing again, and restarted xfs once portmap
was running... and wham - problem solved.

so the 60 seconds it was waiting for an xfs connection which needs
sunrpc as well...

now, my question is: why???
my XF86Config lists the following fontpaths:

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

now, there is ':' in there, but that shouldn't mean that it needs a
font server, right? anyway, i am postponing this email to restart xdm
now that i have commented the first three lines...

... back... but that did not fix the problem... it is still asking for
a connection to the font server and i don't know why. moreover, i am
not going to run portmap just because xdm bitches, so please let me
know how i can disable this behavior.

thanks,
martin

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