From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 8:52: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC1937B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samwise.jobeus.net (samwise.jobeus.net [209.91.102.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE1C43E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:52:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@jobeus.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by samwise.jobeus.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) id g68FpwVe002140; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:51:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@jobeus.net) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by samwise.jobeus.net (8.12.5/8.12.3av) with ESMTP id g68FpuSe002132; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:51:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@jobeus.net) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:51:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Scott Carmichael To: Gerard Samuel Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: X box disconnected from network?? In-Reply-To: <3D29A41C.1000904@trini0.org> Message-ID: <20020708095022.X2125-100000@samwise.jobeus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is just a guess based on some problems I had with X in linux a long time ago, but if it can't resolve your hostname when you're not connected (ie. it's not in /etc/hosts), X was taking forever to load and popping up tons of errors. That could be it, maybe? Worth a shot if /etc/hosts is empty, sicne you're then using your network DNS to do your own hostname resolution, and it would dissapear without a network connection. On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Gerard Samuel wrote: > When one of my boxes that has XFree86, isn't connected to the network X > takes forever to start. > I read a post about this a while ago, but I cannot find it now. > Im running XFree 4.2.0 on FBSD 4.6 via startx. > What needs to be done to get it to start normally as if its still > connected to the network? > Thanks > > -- > Gerard Samuel > http://www.trini0.org:81/ > http://dev.trini0.org:81/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message