MHR wrote: . . . > > It doesn't. It seems, though, that it is GNOME that is painfully slow > to start any thing up, and when it is doing so, it hampers everything > else to some extent. Slow as in it takes minutes to load programs > instead of milliseconds.... > Gnome at one time (RH9 days I think) was painfully slow to start after a hostname change, until it udpated itself in all places - or whatever it was doing. Is your hostname & /etc/hosts still intact? If it's been up for a while, I would expect it to resolve itself already. That's how it used to was anyway. Nothing in the log files? top show anything of interest? -- tkb