> On Thursday 18 November 2004 02:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor > > inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also > > has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at work. Both were > > running 10.0 Official until last night when I have the idea of > > "UPRMI-installing" 10.1 Official to them. In my dual boot machine (old > > Walmart Special Edition HP) everything went smoothly. In my office machine > > (a three year old "high-end" Dell desktop) things went smoothly except the > > following: > > > > When I boot the machine, the two first logins hang for about five minutes > > before going through. This is not very serious, since I have no reason to > > boot this machine too often, but I'd rather have that fixed. Let me > > describe the problem in detail in steps. > > > > 1. Reboot the machine and let X-Windows start > > 2. Login using valid username. Login prompt disappears and nothing happens > > for about five minutes > > 3. Wait five minutes and then suddenly the login proceeds as normal. > > > > 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 > Sounds like the sys is looking for something it can't find. When you log on, > hit escape and watch the text feed. When it stops and you get the long wait > before it proceeds, that is where the problem is. Let us know what part of > the text feed it waits on and maybe we have a better idea of how to help. > Normally it is a hardware issue and disabling harddrake on start up will fix > it. HTH > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842
Thanks: Tried that. Actually, hitting Escape after login does not do anything (strange, I also thought it should do something). Tried disabling services, disabling harddrake does not help. I tried disabling sshd too, because every time a boot I get the following noise on my auth.log: Nov 19 10:06:42 saku sshd[3087]: Received signal 15; terminating. Nov 19 10:07:44 saku sshd[3076]: Server listening on :: port 22. Nov 19 10:07:44 saku sshd[3076]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Addre ss already in use. That did not help either. The behavior of the computer has changed now a little though (with Harddrake and sshd starting at startup), now the freeze happens before the login window appears. But I can still open up the TTY's and the second login to a TTY will go through fine, while the X-window system and the first login hang about five minutes. Strange. Saku
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