On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:09 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I find a surprisingly long wait - > about 30 seconds - after logging in, > with very little disk activity until near the end. > I don't know what the computer is doing? That sounds like hostname resolution issues. Even when used locally, X still uses networking. That's one reason why you find your hostname jammed into the localhost line (where it doesn't really belong) in the /etc/hosts file. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines