KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service" (SOLVED)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Andrew,

Problem solved.  The hostname on
/etc/hosts
and
/etc/rc.conf
must be identical.  Its mis-typing would cause slow startup of KDE

B.R.
Stephen

>FWIW I noticed on my 5.2 box today kinit was using 60% of the
>processor.  I restarted KDE and kinit's usage dropped to ~1%.
>
>Drew
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>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:49, Stephen Liu wrote:
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>>Hi Teodor,
>>
>>FreeBSD 5.2
>>========
>>
>>I encounter the same problem. KDE starts very slow, first popup desktop 
>>icrons, bottom tool-bar, welcome screen, etc., one by one taking 
>>prolonged time. Starting K package from desktop also takes lengthy time 
>>to start.
>>
>>Immediate after installation from CD1 completed it worked perfectly. 
>>After playing around to configure network card, ppp, etc. KDE starting 
>>became terrible slow.
>>
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>>>FreeBSD chinhngt.b.gz.ru 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0:
>>> 
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>>>
>>>I would recommend adding something like this to your /etc/hosts:
>>>127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	chinhngt.b.gz.ru
>>>
>>>I have noticed this problem when you change your domain from the classic
>>>'localhost.localdomain' to something else, and KDE does not know how to
>>>resolve it, thus the slowdowns.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>># /etc/hosts
>>
>>I changed
>>:: 1 localhost localhost.my.domain
>>127.0.01 localhost localhost.my.domain
>>
>>to
>>:: 1 localhost.localdomain
>>127.0.01 localhost.localdomain
>>
>>It complained at booting with following warning;
>>....
>>Starting sshd.
>>554 5.3.0 host "localhost" unknown: Invalid argument
>>..... sm-mta[432]: NOQREUE: SYSERR(root) :host "localhost" unknown: 
>>Invalid argument
>>.....
>>
>>Kindly advise how to fix the problem
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>B.R.
>>Stephen Liu
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