-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:14:44PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It came > up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a *very* > long time -- said it couldn't find the hostname (something like that) -- but > it eventually started XFCE. And the messages were back. > > Something I forgot to mention: When XFCE starts and I open a terminal, the > terminal comes up right away, but it takes a long time (30+ seconds, it > feels like) to display the prompt.
All those 30-ish seconds timeout and the error message you mention above smell of something trying to resolve a host name, failing and giving up (timeout). Although I can't, for the life of me, imagine what DNS lookups might be involved in the starting of a term. To poke a bit in the dark, try (in a console) "ping localhost". What happens? Then try "ssh <yourusername>@localhost". But I'm poking in the dark. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlYSIQ0ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZyEQCcCi00QkAOR9TyRc8Ut8834eGP 9YIAoIA9lMqPVjJQAC5ErN902IV6zWVH =W1jA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
