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Apparently, though unproven, at 20:08 on Monday 20 September 2010, Thomas |
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Drueke did opine thusly: |
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> Hi, |
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> I installed KDE 4.5.1 over the weekend following the |
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> "remove-all-old-kde-packages-first" approach on the gentoo webpage. So |
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> far everything seems to be fine except one thing. |
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> When I type "su -" in konsole it takes 20-30 seconds to complete. |
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> Doing the same on a text console the command completes immediately. |
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> I don't have NIS or LDAP enabled. "strace su -" came back with an |
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> authentication failure immediately so no much info from there. |
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> Also "top" didn't show any suspicious process consuming the time. |
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> I found a thread from may which might be related to my observation |
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> ("KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend"). |
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> The solution there was to upgrade to KDE 4.4.4 which does not fit here. |
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> Google didn't show much on this topic as well. |
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> Any ideas what might cause the delay or how to get more close to the |
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> root cause ? |
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20-30 second delays due to DNS timeouts have hit me so many times it's always |
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the first thing I check, even when it seems irrelevant. |
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Does your machine have a local hostname, and do you have an entry for it in |
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either DNS or /etc/hosts? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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