On Thursday 18 November 2004 02:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > This is my first post: I am turning to you for help for a minor > inconvenience. I have two linux boxes, a home dual-boot machine (it also > has XP for my kid's games) and a uniquely Linux box at work. Both were > running 10.0 Official until last night when I have the idea of > "UPRMI-installing" 10.1 Official to them. In my dual boot machine (old > Walmart Special Edition HP) everything went smoothly. In my office machine > (a three year old "high-end" Dell desktop) things went smoothly except the > following: > > When I boot the machine, the two first logins hang for about five minutes > before going through. This is not very serious, since I have no reason to > boot this machine too often, but I'd rather have that fixed. Let me > describe the problem in detail in steps. > > 1. Reboot the machine and let X-Windows start > 2. Login using valid username. Login prompt disappears and nothing happens > for about five minutes > 3. Wait five minutes and then suddenly the login proceeds as normal. > > There are variations to this theme: I can open a TTY-window (alt-ctl-f1 > etc). The first login will hang there too, but opening a second tty-window > will let you login immeadiately. So if I want to login quickly after reboot > I have login three times and to get to X-windows wait for five minutes). I > can also boot to failsafe mode and still the initial login hangs. > > Has anyone seen anything like this? Actually I have, with the same machine > and 10.0. Back then I ended up reinstalling everything to get rid of this. > Now I would not like to do that. I would be (naturally) happy to provide > info that might be helpful to solve this problem (like info on hardware or > content of log files). I can also live with this problem, but rather not. > > Cheers, > > Saku Aura Sounds like the sys is looking for something it can't find. When you log on, hit escape and watch the text feed. When it stops and you get the long wait before it proceeds, that is where the problem is. Let us know what part of the text feed it waits on and maybe we have a better idea of how to help. Normally it is a hardware issue and disabling harddrake on start up will fix it. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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