Thanks to the subtle slap of the clue-stick below it works now. I had been having bind problems so my hostname was defined in the hosts file as 127.0.0.1 but my firewall script has a policy of drop and no rules at all for lo.
'DOH!!! Thanks for the help. I'll go back to trying to screw up bind now. John Purser -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Krammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: KDE hangs - Woody - Updated On Sunday 03 August 2003 22:02, John M. Purser wrote: > After booting I log in via gdm. The kde splash screen comes up, gets > to "initializing services", hangs there for a minute or two, the splash > screen goes away leaving me with just gray, and after 5 to 10 minutes > kde starts. If I open up Konqueror and try to read any directory on my > machine it will hang for another 5 minutes or so. Once it has read one > directory it can read the rest quickly. Hmm, check if your system can resolve the hostname locally, i.e. that the hostname is part of /etc/hosts and either resolves to the fixed IP address or, if you used DHCP, to 127.0.0.1 Cheers, Kevin -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
