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#1 2004-04-14 04:17:00

dangparker
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Registered: 2004-04-13
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mozilla-firefox slow to start

Okay,  I've been slowly solving my problems...but here's one that's beyond me

mozilla-firefox takes a really long time to start up from the command "mozilla-firefox" when issued as user

Also, when going to web sites I get long "resolving www.archlinux.org" times.  Once it finds the site, everything seems fine.

Any suggestions, I'm at my wits end

Thanks
Daniel Parker

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#2 2004-04-14 19:02:43

Xentac
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Re: mozilla-firefox slow to start

You don't have your local hostname set up properly in /etc/fstab.


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#3 2004-04-14 19:18:48

Dusty
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Re: mozilla-firefox slow to start

Xentac wrote:

You don't have your local hostname set up properly in /etc/fstab.

huh?  Since when does fstab have a hostname...

Do you mean /etc/rc.conf?

Dusty

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#4 2004-04-14 19:24:44

Xentac
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Re: mozilla-firefox slow to start

Gah!  /etc/hosts! /etc/hosts! not /etc/fstab.

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#5 2004-04-16 03:06:21

dangparker
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Registered: 2004-04-13
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Re: mozilla-firefox slow to start

Thanks for the replys, a noob needs all the help he can get!

My /etc/hosts goes like this
127.0.0.1 localhost

Is this correct?  I'm running dhcp, so should I have some line in there about my hostname?

Thanks in advance.
Daniel Parker

p.s. Read over in linuxquestions.org that having IPV-6 enabled could be slowing down the web surfing (giving long "resolving host www.yahoo" times), any idea how to disable it?

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#6 2004-05-16 11:35:20

speedster
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Re: mozilla-firefox slow to start

actually, your etc/hosts should look like:

127.0.0.1 YOURCOMPUTERNAMEHERE localhost

Hope this helps.

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