On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:10:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > And this is to all the wizards on-list: Why does Gnome take > > minutes to load? Yes, I finally got 6.3-PRERELEASE to boot > > after learning that Dell has problems with its serial ports > > (and Unix). I did see a few postings about the increased > > delay time to bring up the windowing system, but didn't know it > > would apply to 6.3 .... > > Since I don't run any windowing system on any of my FBSD boxen, I may be > way off here, but could this load time be due to DNS timeouts of some sort? > > Many things hang if they can not resolve names, perhaps this could be > part of the issue? >
Hmm, maybe I should restart my dhcp daemon. thanks for the idea. gary > Steve -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"