Re: extremely slow startup times
Aaron Unger <[email protected]>
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Ok... sorry for the slow response. Vacation called. :-) On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 18:16, Damian Ivereigh wrote: <snip> > I have found the simple solution is to give your machine a hostname and > make that an alias to the loopback address in /etc/hosts. For example > mine is:- > > 127.0.0.1 localhost damian-x20.cisco.com damian-x20 > > The hostname for my machine is damian-x20.cisco.com <snip> I've tried this, with many possible permutations of what it may think my hostname is. It didn't work in any way I tried. I also tried setting up my computer as a dns master for my ip block (10.0.0.0) but even that didn't work. And then today, I made a discovery. I turned off my iptables filter, and lo and behold, it works! It works well! Before, turning networking off and then back on, Nautilus continued to be really slow, but now that I've turned iptables off, everything works well, and responds quickly. Sooo... here's what I found: gnome2 (and nautilus, and maybe some other progs) try to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 111 (sunrpc, or portmapper). Not realizing the full implications, I set my iptables INPUT chain to default to DROP. Then I explicitly allowed various types of packets through. But I didn't allow any 127.0.0.1 packets through! They were all being dropped, hence the delay. If they were to be rejected or accepted, there would be no delay. So by adding an ACCEPT rule for 127.0.0.1, it fixes the problem. Woo hoo! Thanks all for your help! I hope this helps someone else in the future. :-) -- Aaron Unger [email protected] _______________________________________________ gnome-2-snapshots maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots