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pinger

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Registered: 2007-02-21

Posts: 27

Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Hi all,

I am experiencing a number of freezes or very long delays (several minutes) under KDE and GNOME:

- When logging into KDE (from gdm), 90% of the time the login hangs at "initializing system devices"
- When logging into KDE does work, Konqueror takes about 4 minutes to show my home directory (but works fine otherwise for browsing the web)
- When logging out of GNOME or attempting to shut down the computer from within GNOME, the X server freezes; I can kill it with ctrl-alt-backspace and then the shutdown procedure continues normally
- Certain KDE applications (e.g. Kile) hang when starting under GNOME

Can you see a possible common cause or set of causes to investigate?

I am running Arch 0.8 and

#uname -a
Linux myhost 2.6.20-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 20 17:17:42 CET 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Thank you in advance for your help!

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Make sure you have a proper localhost entry in /etc/hosts. Here's mine (kingdom is the hostname of my box):

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost kingdom

pinger

Member

Registered: 2007-02-21

Posts: 27

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Thanks for your quick reply. Here's my own /etc/hosts:

# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost rat-trap

# End of file

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Your localhost interface is up in ifconfig, and it isn't firewalled? These services try to contact portmapper or other services at startup, if you don't have a localhost interface or it is firewalled, these apps hang until the timeout expires.

pinger

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Registered: 2007-02-21

Posts: 27

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Indeed... ifconfig does not show any lo interface. Where has it gone?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Check your rc.conf to see if it's not commented out.

pinger

Member

Registered: 2007-02-21

Posts: 27

Re: Several freezes and very long delays in KDE and GNOME

Thanks for your replies all. Apparently, I had borked my rc.conf network config while trying to install ifplugd. Now everything is back to normal.

I'd really appreciate a few pointers on how to do the following under Arch with ifplugd... I can't seem to get it working:

- Autodetect ethernet network
- Autodetect wireless network (several WEP protected networks I roam between regularly)

Thanks again for your help!