From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 20:55:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D7E16A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:55:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin@tigergroup.org) Received: from mail8.opentransfer.com (mail10.opentransfer.com [69.6.255.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 746B043D45 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:55:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin@tigergroup.org) Received: (qmail 2937 invoked by uid 399); 1 Aug 2005 20:54:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (68.47.19.148) by mail.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 1 Aug 2005 20:54:50 -0000 Message-ID: <42EE9A1B.9080308@tigergroup.org> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:54:35 -0500 From: Eriq User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050404 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <42EDD774.4090306@tigergroup.org> <200508011708.34414.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200508011708.34414.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: X for users slow: you are right! thx X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:55:38 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Monday 01 August 2005 17:34, Eriq wrote: > >>after all of this, I notice that it takes a user about a minute after >>'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still like the colors :) >>anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as root and start X. Blackbox is >>the WM hope this helps. > > > At a wild guess I would say your DNS is broken. > > Either the forward or reverse lookup is timing out. > > If that isn't it then maybe you have a strange card/driver? > I figured it out last night and yes it was the dns :( after several trys to reconfigure properly I decided to just go with professional web site hosting and just use this box for database support. I am sure w/ some help I could have fixed it but really it is more cost efficent to out source the web and mail. Thx for the help and quick response. Sign, Eriq