check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated "features" of gnome ...
BillK On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: > I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after > logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. > I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. > Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the > box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. > > The last thing I remember doing is modifying /etc/conf.d/rc, emerging > Thunderbird, and fetching some sources for another Gentoo box. I've > tried failsafe GNOME, same thing. Failsafe terminal works, though. The > mouse works and I can Ctrl-Alt-Backspace whenever I want and X/GNOME > restarts. > > Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. > -- > > Colin > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
