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When X does....nothing.



Gnome hangs a bit if it cannot resolve the hostname defined on the 
machine.  Try adding your hostname to /etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1.  
See if that helps.

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Duane Morin wrote:

> 
> Here's some interesting new information I just discovered last night when 
> I was home without a net connection.  X works just fine.  When I came into 
> work this morning and eth0 came up, it went back to doing its hang thing.
> So Gnome must be trying to do something over the net before it starts up?
> Something that it can't do in a short period of time?
> 
> Duane
>  
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Duane Morin wrote:
> 
> > I'm back.  Long story short I just lost a week's worth of config work by 
> > trashing my hard drive.  D'oh.  Now I'm back up with a dedicated Fedora
> > build (instead of the previous semi update).
> > 
> > I have the latest NVidia drivers.  X boots...I get a flash of NVidia logo, 
> > then blank screen, with X cursor that I can move at will.  
> > 
> > But that's it.  It never goes anywhere.  If I do "X --verbose", the last 
> > thing I see is XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Kernel Inptu 
> > handler" (type other).
> > 
> > So what I'm wondering is, maybe it's not an NVidia thing at all, maybe X 
> > is just sitting there and waiting infinitely because it's supposed to be 
> > doing something next and can't.
> > 
> > If it's any more information, when I try to get into gnome I get the 
> > Fedora splash box, but then none of the little icons that usually 
> > represent the starting services. 
> > 
> > So what's supposed to be the first service that it starts?
> > 
> > Thanks!!!
> > 
> > Duane
> > 
> > 
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