-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 September 2004 3:43 am, Nicholas Hemsley wrote: > Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
> >This sounds very much like a networking problem to me. Something > >like timeouts the systems waits for before it proceeds... > > > >Regards > > on that note, is your hosts file setup properly? i.e. with the localhost > (/me clutches at straws) Philipp, Nicholas, Thanks for the hints! It wasn't the hosts file, but the loopback interface was missing from /etc/network/interfaces. After adding these two lines: auto lo iface lo inet loopback and rebooting it is working. KDE startup occurs in less than 4 seconds now! Thanks! - -- John C. Martin * Use my gpg key to ensure privacy - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin/John.gpg * You seal an envelope before you mail it - why treat your email differently? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBT2FvqbFn8NEyP0ARAoVVAKCak6T0j7aYjdGarCuySFpWOfn4PgCeNdlf WOy6W9on9z1gZDVRKUtYxlE= =6TJt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
