Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info
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On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:14:44PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
> I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It came up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a *very* long time -- said it couldn't find the hostname (something like that) -- but it eventually started XFCE. And the messages were back.
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> Something I forgot to mention: When XFCE starts and I open a terminal, the terminal comes up right away, but it takes a long time (30+ seconds, it feels like) to display the prompt.
All those 30-ish seconds timeout and the error message you mention
above smell of something trying to resolve a host name, failing
and giving up (timeout). Although I can't, for the life of me, imagine
what DNS lookups might be involved in the starting of a term.
To poke a bit in the dark, try (in a console) "ping localhost". What
happens? Then try "ssh <yourusername>@localhost". But I'm poking in
the dark.
Regards
- -- tomás
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