On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Thomas Drueke wrote:
> Thanks for hints, but no luck so far.
>
> Yohan, using xterm instead of konsole results in the same delay.
To rule some other things out, you could also try:
unset DISPLAY
su -
DISPLAY is one of the differences between a text konsole and anything
under X... Might be that some bashrc/profile script tries to do
something with X if it sees DISPLAY, but isn't able to connect to X under
root... (maybe some xauth stuff..)
yoyo
>
> Alan, hosts contains the hostname (FQDN) for eth0 and also alocalhost
> entry. Plus wireshark didn't show any network traffic during the delay
> (for both eth0 and lo).
>
> Is there any of the new services from KDE 4 which requires some
> configuration concerning DNS or similar network services ?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am 20.09.2010 23:11, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Monday 20 September 2010, Thomas
> > Drueke did opine thusly:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the
> >> "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So
> >> far everything seems to be fine except one thing.
> >>
> >> When I type "su -" in konsole it takes 20-30 seconds to complete.
> >> Doing the same on a text console the command completes immediately.
> >>
> >> I don't have NIS or LDAP enabled. "strace su -" came back with an
> >> authentication failure immediately so no much info from there.
> >> Also "top" didn't show any suspicious process consuming the time.
> >>
> >> I found a thread from may which might be related to my observation
> >> ("KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend").
> >> The solution there was to upgrade to KDE 4.4.4 which does not fit here.
> >> Google didn't show much on this topic as well.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what might cause the delay or how to get more close to the
> >> root cause ?
> >
> >
> > 20-30 second delays due to DNS timeouts have hit me so many times it's
> > always
> > the first thing I check, even when it seems irrelevant.
> >
> > Does your machine have a local hostname, and do you have an entry for it in
> > either DNS or /etc/hosts?
> >
> >
>
