Le lun 04/02/2008 à 18:53, Tim a écrit : > 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? Thanks Tim, while both computers have been very slow they haven't acted exactly the same in that the FC2 has returned to normal twice. I added a network printer Samsung CLX-2160N and it keeps a program in the system tray "smartpanel" and it uses Ghostscript. The Samsung software uses CUPS but manages the printing process. It works fine but did cause Xine to complain that I was using Xine as root and it would not be responsible etc. I haven't investigated as this printer can email or transfer scans on it's own without Xine. I tried to add Adobe Reader but it doesn't seem to have installed enough to work. Haven't had time to look at it. Updated Flash on the FC2 computer but first by mistake added an Adobe file that added a lot of fonts but didn't seem to accomplish much else. I added MYSQL to the Fedora 7 computer. I think that's it. Doug
