Dear Both Thanks for your help. Both comments identify something amiss in my /etc/hosts. I'll fix and report back when poss.
Best wishes Ivan -- festina lente On 12 Apr 2013, at 12:52, Charles Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does dfly.llaisdy.com point to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts ? > Usually it is recommended to put the machine name to 127.0.0.1 in the > hosts file. > > Regards > > 2013/4/12 Ivan Uemlianin <[email protected]>: >> Dear All >> >> I have recently installed dragonflybsd. Configs and installations seem to >> be going well, apart from two strange behaviours, possibly linked. If I'm >> connected to the internet everything is fine but, if I'm not: >> >> (a) during boot, the machine stops at >> >> Starting sshd >> >> I leave it for 5 minutes, but no progress. If I ctrl-c, it finishes the >> rest of the boot (presumably abandoning start sshd). >> >> (b) Starting X without an internet connection is very slow, but does >> eventually get through. e.g.: >> >>> startx >> >> xauth: file /home/ivan/.serverauth.812 does not exist >> ... wait 2 mins ... >> >> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "dfly.llaisdy.com.2" in "list" command >> ... wait 1 min ... >> >> - into X! >> >> Please could someone explain why these things happen, and how I can make the >> computer easier to use when I don't have an internet connection. >> >> With thanks and best wishes >> >> Ivan >> >> -- >> ============================================================ >> Ivan A. Uemlianin PhD >> Llaisdy >> Speech Technology Research and Development >> >> [email protected] >> www.llaisdy.com >> llaisdy.wordpress.com >> github.com/llaisdy >> www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin >> >> festina lente >> ============================================================
