Gutsy speed

[Davide Corio]

Il giorno gio, 06/12/2007 alle 13.45 +0100, Jef Driesen ha scritto:
> I'm also interested in some speed improvements. My ubuntu laptop needs 
> approximately 5 mins to boot. It is a Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz with 2GB ram, 
> so it is very similar to your system. Even my much older desktop system 
> (P4 3.2GHz) boots much faster. The first part of the boot sequence 
> (where the splash screen with the progress bar is shown) is reasonable 
> fast, but once X comes up, I have to wait several minutes before my 
> gnome desktop appears. During that time, I only see a light brown 
> background color.

5 mins?? O_o

In this case, chech your hostname (open gnome-terminal and type
hostname)

You need to have the same hostname in /etc/hosts, and it has to be
associated to 127.0.1.1 (you can do the same check through System ->
Administration -> Network)


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