On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 18:43, Joss Winn wrote: > Thanks. As it happens, the problem was with the package 'dhcp3-client' > and not with either KDE or Gnome. On the day I got ADSL, I started > using dhcp with a router, I downloaded a lot of packages including > dhclient and then the unbearably slow logins began. > > After uninstalling a lot of KDE and Gnome I found that > login was hanging for several minutes with other window managers and > also found that typing into search fields like google or > user/password fields for web mail, also caused the browser to hang. > > I don't understand why it was doing this, but uninstalling dhcp3-client > and switching to 'pump' has fixed it. > > anyone got an explanation for this?
Likely something like a bogus nameserver entry causing DNS timeouts. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
