extremely long start up times

[Rikard Johnels]

On Thursday 14 October 2004 05.10, darren wrote:
> I am running KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop.  Everything runs normal
> while I'm at home.  When I'm at school, however, some apps take an
> extraordinary amount of time to start (like 5 minutes).  Once started, they
> seem to operate fine.  Other applications don't suffer this same fate.
>
> Examples of applications that start slowly:
>  o  Open Office
>  o  Kate
>  o  Konqueror  *this one isn't consistently bad
>
> Examples of applications that start OK:
>  o  Kmail
>  o  FireFox
>  o  Konsole
>  o  Audacity
>  o  Skype
>
> The only difference between starting my computer at home and my computer at
> school is that my ethernet is plugged in when starting at home.  My
> internet connection at school is wireless.  It is not started until I have
> fully booted (I start the wireless connection manually).
>
> Any suggestions where to look or how to begin troubleshooting?  Or, better
> yet, anyone recognize this issue.
>
> TIA,
> Darren
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Sounds like a DNS issue.
Something is looking for a DNS that isnt there.
Do you use DHCP on both locations?

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         /Rikard

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