Matthew Dillon wrote: >: >:> 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.
Actually, it could be IPv6. Many servers apparently claim to support IPv6 but don't, and this causes timeouts. You could try two things: 1. Disable IPv6 in the kernel 2. Start your KDE session with KDE_NO_IPV6=true Rahul
