: :> It sounds like a DNS problem. : :Indeed it was. /etc/hosts was missing an entry. thats also why startx :didnt work, and why Firefox took 5 mins to start up. However Konqueror is :still very slow.
Well, I don't know if there is something specific to konq, but
it still could be DNS. You need to see where its blocking and slowing
down, perhaps by running it with a ktrace -i or something like that.
-Matt
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