Sounds like DNS. At a guess, I would try adding your hostname to the /etc/hosts file and set either a permanent IP address, or use 127.0.0.1 John. Bart Schaefer wrote: > This is undoubtedly an upstream issue, but ... > > I've been messing about with that hp pavilion trying to get wireless > working. If I boot with the eth0 NIC plugged in, everything is > blazingly fast -- GDM comes up in a few seconds, the Gnome startup > splash screen barely has time to appear before it's gone again, shells > pop up the instant I click Open Terminal. > > If I unplug the network and reboot, it all goes to hell. It takes > several minutes for GDM to start, the splash screen sometimes lingers > up to 10 minutes after the window manager is running, terminal windows > take varying lengths of time from 2-15 minutes to open. It even takes > 5-6 minutes to mount filesystems from the USB drive. > > Nothing unusual appears in "top"; gnome-system-monitor is one of the > apps that takes forever to launch (to the point that I thought it had > crashed), but it doesn't show anything odd either. No activity in the > various /var/log files. Any ideas what could be causing this? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin