Hi! > today our company's inet falled out for a few hours. Only intranet worked. > During this > time I've booted my FreeBSD-STABLE (which took quite long due to ntpdate and > hostname) > and tried to start KDE with "startx". It did not work and din't even print > messages to > the console. So I rebooted and tried again. Sometimes KDE started, sometimes > it > didn't, and other times it started very slowly. Also not all (KDE) > applications could > be launched.
I recently set up my first FreeBSD+XFree86+KDE based desktop machine, and ISTR having similar problems when the machine was unable to resolve its own hostname. I cured it by adding relevant entries to /etc/hosts. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * What are you looking down here for? Read the message! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
