On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 20:27, Kārlis Miķelsons wrote: > >> When I run xinit or startx GUI appears (just cursor on black >> background) and system hangs for about 12 seconds. During these 12 >> seconds I cannot move the cursor or do anything with the keyboard. After >> this delay window manager starts and everything works fine afterwards. I >> have this issue with 5.4, 5.5 and current (Apr 20 snapshot). Judging > > Your DNS is broken. xauth is trying to resolve the current hostname. > Fix DNS or add something to /etc/hosts. >
What else is involved? My system has an unresolvable, albeit FQDN, hostname, and I don't experience the described delay. What I have seen, however, is a big, repeatable delay when logging in with a stale ~/.Xauthority.
