Re: extremely slow KDE/Gnome

2003-05-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
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

Re: extremely slow KDE/Gnome

2003-05-12 Thread Joss Winn
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 G

Re: extremely slow KDE/Gnome

2003-05-12 Thread Francois Taiani
Hi Joss, do you see anything particular in your ~/.gnome-errors? This might help track your problem to its cause. You can also try to see if any particular messages are logged during your logging in using something like "grep -hr 'May 12 17:3' * | sort | uniq | less" in the directory /var/log as

extremely slow KDE/Gnome

2003-05-10 Thread Joss Winn
Hello, Since running apt-get update/upgrade yesterday, both gnome and kde are extremely slow to start - almost non functional - after the first login. Is anyone else experiencing this? I was running mainly gnome but also installed most of kde 3.1.1 at this time and wonder if it is something the kd