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Xfree slow the start

Hello

I've just installed Xfree-4.4 from source, all went well. When I hit 'startx' the system now, and in the past, is set to boot into KDE.

But I now have a situation whereby Xfree takes a maybe 30sec to start after typing 'startx' And when the KDE screen appears the system continues to go slow. Folders and pieces of txt can take 15 sec to appear. Any idea what can cause this, I've never had it before? The log files don't appear to show any errors. What's going on?

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gheist

Client libraries are from different version, this makes some compatibility code used.
You built in suboptimal manner, so it is very slow (gcc -g or so)
Whats going on - it works the way you made it...

cliffhanger121599

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Sorry, don't understand. Xfree was built with the following optimisation in xf86site.def(I assume this is what you are refering to):

#define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i686

If not, how would you build it??

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gheist

I never build it, I use packages....

cliffhanger121599

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I said the log file had no errors? This is right at the beginning:

XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/Cliffhangers:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

The rest looks normal

Any ideas???

MAC

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cliffhanger121599

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That's it! The problem was name to address resolution against nameserver. I had the follwing in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 www.linuxfromscratch.com hostname localhost

I have no network card at present. It worked with XFree 4.2, why not with 4.4?

Anyway the points are yours

thanks

MAC

gheist

because 4.2 did not support inet6 address family...