On Thursday 18 November 2004 07:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There are variations to this theme: I can open a TTY-window (alt-ctl-f1 > > etc). > > The first login will hang there too, but opening a second tty-window will > > let > > you login immeadiately. So if I want to login quickly after reboot I have > > login > > three times and to get to X-windows wait for five minutes). I can also > > boot to > > failsafe mode and still the initial login hangs. > > > > Has anyone seen anything like this? Actually I have, with the same > > machine and > > 10.0. Back then I ended up reinstalling everything to get rid of this. > > Now I > > would not like to do that. I would be (naturally) happy to provide info > > that > > might be helpful to solve this problem (like info on hardware or content > > of log > > files). I can also live with this problem, but rather not. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Saku Aura > > If the delay was about 90 seconds, I would suspect that it was a DNS > problem when the system tried to find its host name. That usualy happens > when you give the system a host name, but do not put an entry for it in > /etc/hosts, and you don't have a full time Internet connection, and no > local name server...
This is also exactly where I would look first. Make sure the first line of you /etc/hosts file looks like this 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain.com localhost -- /g
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