Hi all, first I would like to say thx to the FreeBSD devel team they have truly done a great job with 5.4! Now I have all my servers running ie. dns (what a headache that was), apache (ok after I got dns working), postgres (the easiest of the bunch), postfix (smooth as always). Most if not all of my problems were just that I am still learning, (weak admin) but after lots of reading man pages I seemed to have managed but now after all of this, I notice that it takes a user about a minute after 'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still like the colors :) anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as root and start X. Blackbox is the WM hope this helps.
On Monday 01 August 2005 17:34, Eriq wrote:> after all of this, I notice that it takes a user about a minute after > 'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still like the colors :) > anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as root and start X. Blackbox is > the WM hope this helps.At a wild guess I would say your DNS is broken. Either the forward or reverse lookup is timing out. If that isn't it then maybe you have a strange card/driver? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050801/8b4954c6/attachment.bin
Eriq wrote:>I notice that it takes a user about a minute after > 'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still like the colors :) > anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as root and start X. Blackbox is > the WM hope this helps.hmmm *not* slow as root suggests permissions - maybe on font directories? Check out the Xorg log in /var/log. I used to see the 1 minute startup with previous versions of FreeBSD - mainly with 'kdm' startup, and running : (root) # fc-cache -f would fix it (however in that case root too would be slow, but maybe worth a try). Cheers Mark
You should check your DNS and how long does it take to start X without the WM. I had problems with BlackBox - it took it almost the same time to start as Gnome (around a minute on a 366 MHz notebook). As no BB developer could help me I switched to WMI; it starts in a second on that same box. -- Regards, Karel Miklav