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
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