Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:03:58 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ...WELL, latest adventures of The Gary in the Dell Message-ID: <20071129060358.GA44547@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <474E1195.40406@ibctech.ca> References: <20071129010221.GA42492@thought.org> <474E1195.40406@ibctech.ca>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:10:45PM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > And this is to all the wizards on-list: Why does Gnome take > > minutes to load? Yes, I finally got 6.3-PRERELEASE to boot > > after learning that Dell has problems with its serial ports > > (and Unix). I did see a few postings about the increased > > delay time to bring up the windowing system, but didn't know it > > would apply to 6.3 .... > > Since I don't run any windowing system on any of my FBSD boxen, I may be > way off here, but could this load time be due to DNS timeouts of some sort? > > Many things hang if they can not resolve names, perhaps this could be > part of the issue? > Hmm, maybe I should restart my dhcp daemon. thanks for the idea. gary > Steve -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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