I had a randomly assigned hostname that I had not noticed until I was getting some mixed up IP addresses from my router.
I changed the hostname in yast>network to what I wanted.
Now when I boot there is about an extra 30 seconds added to my boot - it just seems to sit for a while before loading KDE 4
Using Opensuse 11.0
Any idea what this is all about?
Everything is assigned via dhcp
Can you use ping command to verify your hostname by yourself.
You shall modify your /etc/hosts if you can’t ping your hostname by your machine.
Below is my example:
I add my hostname and ipaddress in last line.
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
192.168.2.33 opensuse opensuse
Regards,
Bryan Yu
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yeah - can ping no problem
farcus@mark:~> ping mark -c 1
PING mark.farcusnet (127.0.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mark.farcusnet (127.0.0.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms
--- mark.farcusnet ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.063/0.063/0.063/0.000 ms
farcus@mark:~>
Did you have any server function like apapche?
I am always waiting for long time after install apache or other server fuction and then change my hostname.
That is my experience.
No - only thing changed was hostname and domain name >hit apply - rebooted and slow at bootup about halfway through. Restored to original doman and host name but problem still persists.
Have ditched the dhcp settings and set IP address manually btu has also made no difference at boot.
Looking at the detailed boot screen, is there any specific service that is slow or hangs for a bit at startup?
OK - I did have autologin but have now disabled it.
Before I disabled it the slowdown was occurring after the detailed boot screen just after lodaing the mouse cursor and prior to the KDE splash screen.
After disabling autologin the slowdown now occurs at the tail end of the KDE splash screen??
if you switch to the tty console using <CTRL><F1>, any indication whats taking long to load?
Seeing this started after the hostname change please have another look at the /etc/hosts. It should, at minimum, contain the loopback and entry for the host , e.g.;
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 <hostname.domain> <hostname>
Also the entry in /etc/hostname should be equal to the <hostname.domain> bit in /etc/hosts
Other than that is there nothing mentioned in /var/log/messages?
Curious,
Wj
Turns out it is a conflict with scim / skim
This app jsut doesn’t play well with KDE 4 and was causing all sorts of problems with Yast.
I’ve now switched back to kde 3 (because skim is that important for me) and everything is good.