On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:54:58PM -0500, et wrote: > what does "cat /etc/hosts" say? what does "cat /etc/resolv.conf" say is DNS > runnig? named? ypserv? > Thanks. You have given me a few leads. Here's an incomplete reply. /etc/hosts:
10.0.0.10 topoi.pooq.com topoi 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 172.25.1.1 topoi.pooq.com topoi /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 204.101.251.1 nameserver 209.226.175.223 I don't recognise these nameservers. Looks like something I could fix. I certainly haven't asked to have a DNS or a YP running, but I presume installing 9.0 will have set up some kind of default. It's certainly my intention to have DNS running eventually, but I still haven't configured it. I'll check whether I'm actually running DNS, named, or ypserv when I next get to boot Mandrake again (this machine is used as internet gateway by a number of others, so I can't just reboot and check it right now. But so far, while runnung Mandrake, the net connexion is off. Could it be that mounting a CD requires a net connexion? Does MCC require a net connexion? Is it not possible to configure a stand-alone Mandrake system? -- hendrik > > > Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:10 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Still no joy. The CDROM still takes ages to mount. It almost as if > > something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires > > on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0. I might > > blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur > > with SuSE Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot) > > > > During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS. Is this normal? > > In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake > > and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by > > changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo. Except that it didn try to start up > > d devFS, no difference. It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds > > to mount a CD. So devFS seems not to be the problem. > > > > Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a > > directory, 14 seconds fo unmount the CD. > > > > It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre. Most of the > > time it appears to be doing nothing. It takes a minute to get to the place > > where I can turn system services on and off. > > > > Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is > > really hopeless. > > > > I did this in the hope of answering Miark question: > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: > > > Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. > > > > > > Miark > > > > Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the > > MCC? If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off. > > > > It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from > > thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then. Mounting a CD does > > eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, > > except that it took four minutes). Now and then it does a read from the CD > > (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays. I'm used to it > > doing a few reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill > > running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning > > immediately afteward with a successful mount. > > > > So I wonder what could cause the delays. I sat and watched in boot > > Mandrake 9.0+today. The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half > > or so starting devFS+demon. Id announces that it is starting the devFS > > demon, and about 90 seconds > > +later (times without a clock) it announces success. > > > > The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for > > adsl +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock > > (again, no +net). > > > > Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS? > > > > Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem? > > > > Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but > > I'll ask+anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? > > > > -- hendrik > > -- > Linux counter number 167806 > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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