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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