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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Slow window startup
From:       Andy Goossens <andygoossens () pandora ! be>
Date:       2004-05-11 22:11:34
Message-ID: 200405120011.34742.andygoossens () pandora ! be
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On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:31, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 22:24, Colin Desmond wrote:
> > I have recently moved to an ADSL router which does DHCP for my
> > machine. Since doing so KDE takes several seconds (up to 10) to open
> > and KDE window, for example Konsole. If I stop the network, then
> > windows start immediately, restart it the delay is back.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
>
> do you have the file /etc/resolv.conf with existing nameservers in it?
> Otherwise many operations have to wait until a network timeout. I had
> this problem when I changed to DHCP - resolv.conf contained two
> nameservers and the first one didn't exist.

Or it might be related to not having a "localhost" line in /etc/hosts.

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// Andy Goossens

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