Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-19 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:13 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> I have only one dhcp server on my lan. The laptop has always a good >> dns name (at home or at work, it has records in both zones). > > And that last tidbit of information might be the crucial b

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:59:55 +0930 Tim wrote: > > I have only one dhcp server on my lan. The laptop has always a good > > dns name (at home or at work, it has records in both zones). > > And that last tidbit of information might be the crucial bit, that > you're using one computer on two differ

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-19 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:13 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > I have only one dhcp server on my lan. The laptop has always a good > dns name (at home or at work, it has records in both zones). And that last tidbit of information might be the crucial bit, that you're using one computer on two different

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-18 Thread Hiisi
2010/4/16 Natxo Asenjo : > hi, > > I have been using the f12 (686) on a dell latitude e6500 laptop. This > is my corporate workstation and so far it's working really nice. > Everything works out of the box and configuring it to work with its > docking station was very easy (much easier than expecte

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, I have only one dhcp server on my lan. The laptop has always a good dns name (at home or at work, it has records in both zones). I remember having something similar quite a while ago (2 years ago) with debian systems and my solution was disabling the avahi-daemon. I have done that here, we'l

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:08:51 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > > the dns setup both at home as at work is solid (I'm a sysadmin, so > yes, I know). I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins > slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? I am not sure what the m

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Because the display, even when on the same machine, is still handled as >> server and client, using hostnames for the networking. A change of >> names or addresses, mid-use, can be a bit of a pain, too. Natxo Asenjo: > fair enough, but if that were the case here, I would have this problem

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/17/2010 06:29 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:08 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > >> I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins >> slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? >> > Because the display, even when on the same machine, is still hand

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:08 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins >> slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? > > Because the display, even when on the same machine, is still hand

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:08 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins > slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? Because the display, even when on the same machine, is still handled as server and client, using hostnames for the net

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
>> Like I said, it does not happen all the time nor it is really >> annoying, but I would like to find out why this is happening. In >> /var/log/messages I do not get any errors. How can I debug the gnome >> login process? >> > > Issues with the host file can sometimes upset gnome, check the > loca

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-17 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:52:28 +0200, >  Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> >> There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop >> it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should >> without any other problems

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:52:28 +0200, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > > There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop > it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should > without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and > login there, but if

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-16 Thread Michael Thompson
On 16/04/2010 11:52, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > hi, > > I have been using the f12 (686) on a dell latitude e6500 laptop. This > is my corporate workstation and so far it's working really nice. > Everything works out of the box and configuring it to work with its > docking station was very easy (much eas

f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-16 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, I have been using the f12 (686) on a dell latitude e6500 laptop. This is my corporate workstation and so far it's working really nice. Everything works out of the box and configuring it to work with its docking station was very easy (much easier than expected). Great work! Thanks. There is on