This sounds a bit like problems I had when logging in with a misconfigured localhost line in my /etc/hosts file. What does the line beginning with "127.0.0.1" read in yours? For example, mine reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain serenity If this is configured correctly, then maybe you could try a different login manager, ie: apt-get install gdm Hope this helps, Damien
thanks for your answer - however:
my hosts file is pretty ok: 127.0.0.1 localhost 172.16.1.101 looney.looneynet.ch looney
actually i do not use a login manager right now (plain console). before i used gdm but it was pretty much the same annoying behaviour.
i am also not able to login through ssh at boot- and firstlogin time, albeit i start ssh at an earlier stage as in debian-default (and therefore it is rather difficult to monitor what is happening at exactly this time...).
some more ideas out there?
rolf
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