on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:38:05AM -0800, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Shao Zhang wrote: > > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start. > > > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against it. > > > > I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't > > bother. > > any news on this? xdm still takes a LONG time (one minute?) until it > start X server (the login window)
How long does raw X take to start? Just "/usr/X11R6/bin/X". What happens when you launch xdm from the command line? Any error messages or output? How about "strace xdm"? Is there a point at which the system output halts or appears to be stuck in a loop? My suspicion is, interestingly enough, network resolution. X is a *networked* windowing system, which means your localhost network configuration must be properly set up. A co-worker had a situation where he could start X at the office (connected to the LAN via DHCP), but not at home (standalone). Problem was a misconfigured /etc/hosts file. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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