xdm on beta-blockers (2)

[Martin WHEELER <mwheeler@startext.co.uk>]

Sorry; on previous, forgot to add:

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OK, I give up.

Can anyone explain to me why xdm now takes a full 60 seconds to load and
kick in?
[Celeron 433, 64M, ATI Rage 128 16M, debian 2.2r3+testing, upgraded
daily.]

I'm flummoxed.
It doesn't appear to be a memory-swapping problem -- more of a
security-permissions related thing, as no-one but root can now run
startx; and last week I was getting error messages about suspicious
ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix.  (No longer reproducible.)

I don't know enough about X to sort this one out -- can anyone help?

TIA

msw
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