Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Colin
W.Kenworthy wrote: check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated "features" of gnome ... I noticed that mDNSResponder failed to stop on shutdown, along with famd and gdm. I don't have an (apparent) problem with DNS, though. -- Colin -- ge

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Colin
Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait f

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Colin
Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:31, Colin wrote: Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. Did this happen after a reboot? Check the permissions of /dev/null "ls -l /dev/null": crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 23 19:13 /dev/null --

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:31, Colin wrote: > Anybody know what's going on?  GNOME never used to do this before. Did this happen after a reboot? Check the permissions of /dev/null -- Mike Williams pgpWfGzWHSA21.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated "features" of gnome ... BillK On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: > I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after > logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Janne Johansson
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: > I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after > logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. > I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. > Wait forever again, and the

[gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread Colin
I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappe