Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info
Glenn English composed on 2015-10-04 18:14 (UTC-0600):
> 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.
> 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.
Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts matching your actual IP to the content in
/etc/hostname when you observe this delay?
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