On Nov 24, 2007 7:58 PM, Manuel Ravasio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list. > I am running 4.2/i386 on my company's Dell Latitude D510 laptop. > I started with a fresh 4.2 install, all hardware got recognized, everything > went just great... until a couple of days ago. > > I'm experiencing an annoying problem with startx. > Since a few days each time I log in (via console, no fancy graphic login yet) > and launch "startx" the console freezes with no error messages, and X server > doesn't start. > Tampering around I found out that startx get unblocked (and X server + > windowmaker and everything) starts correctly as soon as I kill -9 the xauth > process. > A simple kill (-15) proves useless.
check your DNS configuration. xauth(1) needs a working DNS to translates names to addresses and vice-versa. If it block, this blocks X startup.
