----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Charles" From: "Paul Smith" From: "Tim Peoples" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:26 Subject: Re: Gnome very slow Gentlemen since you all ask basicly the same questions I chose to reply all at once to reduce traffic. > > Does your /etc/hosts file resolve localhost correctly? > > > > The first line of that file should be: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost > /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > Along those same lines... you might want to check your /etc/hosts.conf /etc/hosts.conf no such file or directory > and /etc/nsswitch.conf to verify the order in which your machine is > trying to resolve names/addresses. /etc/nsswitch.conf password: files nisplus nis shadow: " " " group: " " " hosts: files nisplus nis dns bootprams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmask: files network: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files netgroup: nisplus publickey: nisplus automount: nisplus aliases: nisplus Not very informative to me. > > If it wants to use DNS before looking in the local hosts file then > I'd imagine you seeing terribly degraded performance if there really > is no network configured. > >Have Camel, Will Code I would really love to see the code for a Camel. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
