I've discovered a wierd and annoying quirk with my laptop (I'm running
redhat 5.1) . As long as I boot with the internet connected, everything is
fine and dandy. However, when I boot without the internet connected (ie
unplugged) it takes forever on the boot to start the sendmail and samba
services, and any jobs other than simple listing or changing directories
take FOREVER - windows will open 5-10 minutes after I ask for them...
This didn't happen before I had my internet stuff configured. (Thanks for
the help with that one - it works great and I am happily printing!) So I
thought that the problem was that sendmail and samba were looking for
internet, which they need to function, and not finding it,
so it took forever every time the computer tried to check on sendmail or
samba. So I went in and turned off those services, but still no luck. When
I rebooted without internet it took more than 5 minutes to open up X after
I typed startx. Windows, etc take equally long.
Have any of you encountered this problem? Have you got any ideas?
Banging my head against the wall,
Nomi