From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 01:10:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CC616A418 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:10:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8E413C44B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 80561 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Nov 2007 01:10:37 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.104.100):. Processed in 6.931345 secs); 29 Nov 2007 01:10:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.30.110?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.104.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Nov 2007 01:10:29 -0000 Message-ID: <474E1195.40406@ibctech.ca> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:10:45 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20071129010221.GA42492@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071129010221.GA42492@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: ...WELL, latest adventures of The Gary in the Dell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:10:38 -0000 > 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? Steve