On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:13 -0500, wrote: >>> Taking minutes to finish booting could also point the finger at name >>> resolution not working, if you have services that need to know their >>> network addresses. Doug Purdy: > Tim, the FC2 computer is just a normal desktop install and it's not > providing nor using shared directories or databases. There are only 8 > computers and a network printer on this home LAN. Doesn't have to be. Sendmail starts, usually, on a machine, and if that can't resolve the machine's address, booting gets delayed. X may need to resolve the local address, and then there's applications that display something graphically... I note, later on, your comment about memory might be the problem. It'd be odd for memory to go funny on two computers at the same time, but wouldn't be odd for recently updated software or configurations on both computers to have a problem. Did you change anything on both of them recently? -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
