extremely long start up times

[Sylvain Colinet]

Look if your hostname is in /etc/host, because sometime dcop_server
use this name and apps try to connect to this name and if the name is
only resolv by a distant DNS server, it can take long time.


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:10:19 -0500, darren <alias3 at crotchett.com> 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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