On Sunday 13 February 2005 11:20, Mr Steve Harris wrote:
> Hello,
> My son recently installed Mandrake 10.1 over 9.2 on my
> machine.  While most things seem to be going smoothly,
> sometimes it takes a long time to log in.
>
> The machine has a p3 and 256MB RAM.
>
> It gets to the GUI login screen.  I log in, but it
> then sits there and does nothing for sometimes over 10
> minutes.  It does it for other users as well, using
> both KDE and Gnome.  It doesn't do it all the time,
> nor can I see a pattern.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Steve.
>
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> http://au.movies.yahoo.com

This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are still 
using devfs instead of udev.

To fix it.
Install udev
Edit /etc/lilo.conf  and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the devfs 
option to 'devfs=nomount'

Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot sector.
Then reboot.
During the boot sequence you should see a message about using udev.

Thats it!  Your log in should now be much faster.

HTH

derek


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