> 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 > > Thanks for both of you for your suggestions. Little background: I have a static IP via connection to a University Ethernet. I tried what you are suggesting there, but it did not make a difference. Currently my /etc/hosts reads xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname.domain.com hostname 127.0.0.1 localhost where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx=my static IP Saku
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