extremely long start up times

[Rikard Johnels]

On Thursday 14 October 2004 15.43, koffice at usmstudent.com wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 07:53 am, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes.  I use DHCP in both places.  But, I question why Kate (for example)
> would need to be aware of my Internet connection.
>
> My hostname returns:
>  [root at mandrake backdoc]# hostname
>  mandrake
>
> My /etc/hosts looks like:
>
>  [root at mandrake backdoc]# cat /etc/hosts
>  <snipage>
>  192.168.1.100           mandrake
>
> grep'ing for my private IP looks like:
>  [root at mandrake backdoc]# ifconfig |grep 192
>   inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> Darren
>
>
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That seems (at least to me) to be a static IP.
Whats in your /etc/resolv.conf ?
(on both locations)

-- 
         /Rikard

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