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Thanks for the hint. |
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"unset DISPLAY" let "su -" complete immediately. |
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I'll check my bashrc/profile + xauth related things to see what might |
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cause this. |
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Thomas |
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Am 21.09.2010 12:10, schrieb YoYo Siska: |
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:53:34PM +0200, Thomas Drueke wrote: |
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>> Thanks for hints, but no luck so far. |
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>> Yohan, using xterm instead of konsole results in the same delay. |
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> To rule some other things out, you could also try: |
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> unset DISPLAY |
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> su - |
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> DISPLAY is one of the differences between a text konsole and anything |
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> under X... Might be that some bashrc/profile script tries to do |
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> something with X if it sees DISPLAY, but isn't able to connect to X under |
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> root... (maybe some xauth stuff..) |
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> yoyo |
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> |
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>> |
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>> Alan, hosts contains the hostname (FQDN) for eth0 and also alocalhost |
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>> entry. Plus wireshark didn't show any network traffic during the delay |
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>> (for both eth0 and lo). |
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>> |
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>> Is there any of the new services from KDE 4 which requires some |
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>> configuration concerning DNS or similar network services ? |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Thomas |
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>> Am 20.09.2010 23:11, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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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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>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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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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