extremely long start up times

[kde at usmstudent.com]

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions.  

The consensus seems to be that the DNS lookups (/etc/resolv.conf) are causing 
my problems.  I didn't want to go too long without posting replies back.  
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do the homework necessary on my end to 
give adequate feedback to everyone's suggestions.  I will research my network 
problems and post again when I have time.  It may be awhile.

Darren

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 10:10 pm, 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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