On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:04:47AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Dominik Vogt <dominik_vogt_at_hp.com> writes:
>
> dv> No it's not fvwm2. It's the X server that is hanging. The fvwm2 line
> dv> in my .xinitrc hasn't even been touched when it hangs.
>
> Oh. _That_ almost certainly means your networking is set up incorrectly
> on your system somehow. X hangs waiting for some network system call to
> timeout, most likely gethostbyname(): a DNS lookup maybe? Does this
> happen when you have a valid network connection, or only when you don't?
I've never started X when I already had a network connection so I can't
answer this. My system has undergone a lot of network configuration
changes (ranging from 'none at all' to 'automatically configured PPP setup
with DNS'). The problem has always been the same: when I kill an X session
during startup and immediately start it again the server *sometimes* hangs.
I doubt that it's really a problem of my network configuration and I really
don't care. It's more of academic interest to me. If I find the time I may
play with it, but I don't think it will help.
----- ten minutes later -----
Nope, my name resolution is OK and fiddling with it does not help.
Bye
Dominik
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Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 16:41:10 GMT