On Wednesday 01 May 2002 14:11, Christopher Fisk wrote: > Almost sounds like you have an "xhost random.domain.com" in your .xinirc > file, and it's trying to figure out the reverse DNS to that before timing > out and continueing the startup of the X system. > > Does DNS work fine for you otherwise? > > Christopher Fisk > > Although I installed DNS it is not fired up by rc.inet1 since I am not running a server. Xinitrc is pretty normal: ----------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then xmodmap $usermodmap fi # Start the window manager: startkde ---------------------------------- John Culleton