SnapafunFrank wrote:
gregor wrote:
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 03:37 am, SnapafunFrank wrote:Not so silly actually. This is one of the first places to look for this tyoe of issue but in my case it did not help.
> I recently went through having to uninstall [ rpm -e ] kdelib~ and
> kdebase and then re-install [ urpmi ] because of a 'kdeinit' problem I
> had whilst attempting to update these packages having read a Mandrake
> security alert. ( I'm back in kde-3.2.3 from the distro disc's )
>
> Now I'm not convinced it is entirely KDE, but since then I have time to
> go make a coffee whenever I attempt to open any apps. Anything at all!
>
> I'm running a PIII 733hz 512RAM system and things ran fine before.
>
> Any ideas where I should start looking?
uhm.. may sound quite silly, but look if there's a hostname in your /etc/hostname ;-)
I had no hostname in it (how did that happen??), and the result was the same behaviour as on your system.
good luck,
gregor
By the way, my hosts file is /etc/hosts [ Mandrake10 ]. In mine I have :
127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con Snapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con localhost
as I run webmin in an effort to learn things about what my system is doing. ( Not to much overkill is it? ) [ The ".con" is simply to keep webmin 'onboard' and appears to work well.]
Initially I only had :
127.0.0.1 Snapafun
Thanks for the response gregor.
And thank you again Shawn. I have just got home so will enjoy the challenge ahead tracking down your suggestions. Will let you know what the results are.
UPDATE: I have added the following to have my /etc/hosts file look like so:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con Snapafun 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con localhost
And as a result my apps now open within 5 seconds. Heaps better than 38 seconds any day. There is still more to do as the same apps open almost instantly as root or as another user. Also, I properly have to much within the /etc/hosts file now but will resolve that later. For now things work better.
-- Regards
SnapafunFrank
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