On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Netscape 4.77 (on Redhat 6.2) is *suddenly* starting very slowly: it
> takes up to 5 or more minutes until he loads the local start file --
> the whole Netscape window is nearly empty during this start-up process
> (all I can see at this time is the "Stop" Button at the beginning --
> but even this button can disappear if i move to another window with
> the mouse and then come back to netscape).
This is a common problem with Netscape 4.7. Netscape is trying to resolve
the name 'news', which is the default (and unremovable!) news server. If
the name 'news' cannot be resolved, Netscape takes a very long time to
start.
To remedy this situation, either place the name 'news' in /etc/hosts, and
point it at 127.0.0.1 (if you don't use news, that is), or have the name
'news' added back to your default domain. Your DNS admin probably removed
it, if this is a new problem.
> as far as I understand the output of this log Netscape is looking for
> a "/var/run/.nscd_socket" which actually doesn't exist - nscd is
> installed, but not started ....
> (is there a way to stop it looking for this nscd_socket, and how can I
> do this?)
Nope... that's glibc doing that. The connection refused is not a problem.
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