Michael George wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a > minute for X to start now. > > I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the > same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as > expected. Booting back to 2.6.23 and it's excruciatingly long. > > I saw some prior posts which indicated a network problem, but in that > case the OP said that the loopback interface wasn't up. I checked my > system (ifconfig) and both lo and eth0 are up and running. I see that you checked if it was up, but have you pinged 127.0.0.1? Also, could you possibly have firewall rules setup blocking things on lo? It's a shot in the dark but sometimes the oddest of problems have the simplest of solutions.
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