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Date:      Sat, 20 May 2006 09:05:50 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        Levi Campbell <levicc00123@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Software taking a long time to load on FreeBSD6
Message-ID:  <446E8E96.8060908@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4a202ad70605192021y7c9b8c4fye9925183d5c27393@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4a202ad70605192021y7c9b8c4fye9925183d5c27393@mail.gmail.com>

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Levi Campbell sat at his 'puter and typed on 5/20/2006 8:51:
> Why is it that some applications like x11, ratpoison, and firefox come up
> instantly while applications like xmms, emacs and thunderbird take about
> five minutes to load? I've tried several things to try and fix this.
>
>
>   - I've deinstalled packages to see if ports was any better and vice
>   versa.
>   - I've cleaned out /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/lock and checked free
>   space.
>   - getting the vanilla sources from the origional FTP site and
>   compiling them

Does the hostname for your system resolve? If not, either set it up or 
put proper entries in /etc/hosts

Thanks and Best Regards
Subhro



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