Thanks for hints, but no luck so far.
Yohan, using xterm instead of konsole results in the same delay.
Alan, hosts contains the hostname (FQDN) for eth0 and also alocalhost
entry. Plus wireshark didn't show any network traffic during the delay
(for both eth0 and lo).
Is there any of the new services from KDE 4 which requires some
configuration concerning DNS or similar network services ?
Regards,
Thomas
Am 20.09.2010 23:11, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Monday 20 September 2010, Thomas
> Drueke did opine thusly:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the
>> "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So
>> far everything seems to be fine except one thing.
>>
>> When I type "su -" in konsole it takes 20-30 seconds to complete.
>> Doing the same on a text console the command completes immediately.
>>
>> I don't have NIS or LDAP enabled. "strace su -" came back with an
>> authentication failure immediately so no much info from there.
>> Also "top" didn't show any suspicious process consuming the time.
>>
>> I found a thread from may which might be related to my observation
>> ("KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend").
>> The solution there was to upgrade to KDE 4.4.4 which does not fit here.
>> Google didn't show much on this topic as well.
>>
>> Any ideas what might cause the delay or how to get more close to the
>> root cause ?
>
>
> 20-30 second delays due to DNS timeouts have hit me so many times it's always
> the first thing I check, even when it seems irrelevant.
>
> Does your machine have a local hostname, and do you have an entry for it in
> either DNS or /etc/hosts?
>
>
