KDE startup slow

[Yonatan Bokovza]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Everlund [mailto:tdv94ped at cs.umu.se]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 15:20
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: KDE startup slow
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> After I got ADSL for my FreeBSD box the startup of KDE takes
> very long time. It "stops" at Initializing System Services,
> then after a while the splash screen disappears, and after
> some more waiting (about two minutes) the Desktop appears.
> 
> It almost looks like a DNS query timeout, but I'm not sure,
> as I really do not know what Initializing System Services
> actually do. Do anyone know?

Please open another terminal and use tcpdump to sniff your
local interface (lo0).
Do you see packets to port 111 ?