Gnome takes over 10 minutes to start

[Ben Edwards]

On 10/19/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
>
> You might be a victim of Ubuntu forgetting to configure the loopback
> network device when it boots. You can try manually bringing up the
> loopback device, and if that works, add an option to
> /etc/network/interfaces to bring it up automatically on every system
> boot.


Acctualy it was me who #d out the loopback stuff. I was setting up wierless
on the laptop did it by accedent.

How comes it has such a devescating effect?

Regards,
Ben

Try going to a text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do), log in and do:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo ifconfig
> --------------------
>
>
> If this lists an entry for lo, everything is okay there and you might
> be having some other problem.
>
> Example loopback device:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> Mask:255.0.0.0 <http://255.0.0.0>
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:48556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:48556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:7970086 (7.6 MiB) TX bytes:7970086 (7.6 MiB)
> --------------------
>
>
> If you need to create a loopback device:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo ifup lo
> --------------------
>
>
> If that doesn't work:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo ifconfig lo up
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Now restart GDM (Ubuntu) or KDM (Kubuntu):
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart
> --------------------
>
>
> If that lets you log in just fine, make sure the following two lines
> are present somewhere in /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> --------------------
>
>
> You can try rebooting to see if those changes work.
>
>
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