On 23-Mar-2000 Mike wrote: > I Installed debian Frozen the other day using the base floppies ans > downloading the rest. I chose the profiles I wanted, and the install > went fine. Then the problems started....gnome was so slow it took at > least 5 minutes to start and 3 minutes for any program to start. Then > I used apt to install blackbox and it worked fine. I have plenty of > memory and gnome has always worked fine with slackware, so I don't know > what the problem is. Also, I used apt to install some other programs, > pan and gaim, and whn i try to start them it said "unable to bind port > xxxx" where x was some numbers I can't recall. After this, i reformatted > my hadr disk and reinstalled, and had the same problems. Can anyone help > me??? >
it sounds roughly like your networking may not have been fully setup. This would explain slowness in net based apps. Read /etc/network/interfaces and check it for sanity.
