guys, the below problem is still giving me a headache. xdm takes 60 seconds before it looks at Xsession and .xsession, and this is due to requests for the font server, which runs on RPC rather than IPC... i am not running portmap, port 111 is closed, and there is no font server present on the system nor referenced in XF86Config. how can i make this problem go away???
thanks, martin ----- Forwarded message from MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- found the problem and am now questioning the sanity of the world. so i started portmap to see if it fixed it. no, it did not. but the requests were for port 111, so portmap had to be involved. then i noticed this font server thing again, and restarted xfs once portmap was running... and wham - problem solved. so the 60 seconds it was waiting for an xfs connection which needs sunrpc as well... now, my question is: why??? my XF86Config lists the following fontpaths: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" now, there is ':' in there, but that shouldn't mean that it needs a font server, right? anyway, i am postponing this email to restart xdm now that i have commented the first three lines... ... back... but that did not fix the problem... it is still asking for a connection to the font server and i don't know why. moreover, i am not going to run portmap just because xdm bitches, so please let me know how i can disable this behavior. thanks, martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "i am a deeply superficial person." -- andy warhol