Quoting Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I installed RC2 on a laptop last week and then updated to cooker on
> Saturday
> > night and I noticed both on RC2 and with the cooker update that KDE
> takes quite
> > a bit longer to login than it used to, rather about twice to three
> times longer.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this?  It seems faster on my Athlon desktop,
> but not by
> > much.  The laptop has a 1.6g celeron with an NVidia card in it.  I'm
> using the
> > Xfree drivers, not the Nvidia drivers.
> >
> 
> My new RC2 install seemed fine.
> 
> Name resolution issues commonly have an effect like this, can you just test:
> 
> $ time getent hosts `hostname`
> 
> Which will tell us if this is an issue or not.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
> 
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Aha!  Apparently, I needed to add my hostname to the hosts file, since it's a
laptop, and then KDE starts normally.  

Gosh, I feel stupid...  

Thanks...



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