CDE Slow

[mrn]

I hope this is a simple one. I have a 6M1 running oracle.
Once I've logged in on the console, it takes CDE about 5-10 minutes to present the desktop, anyone got any ideas about this? All my other boxes start in a few seconds.

Regards --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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http://www.parcandgo.co.uk

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[Morsing]

Check the hosts file to see if the host is there and has the correct ip numbers.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[mrn]

Yes the host entry is correct

***.***.***.*** fully.qualified.hostname.co.uk alias

1.1.1.1 Server1.here.com Server1 --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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http://www.parcandgo.co.uk

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[bi]

Mike,

Usually when this happens to me, it is because there is something wrong with the networking settings. Double-check the settings, especially resolv.conf. There was one time when I had to enter the domain name manually. Don't know what I did wrong that time, but it slowed things down until I put it in there.

 

[sectorseveng]

If using DNS you should also check /etc/netsvc.conf to ensure that lookups are first done using /etc/hosts. Mine contains:
hosts=local4,bind

man netsvc.conf for further details.

 

[mrn]

It was indeed network related, added entry to /etc/netsvc.conf as sectorseveng suggested. Thanks for the help --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
|

http://www.parcandgo.co.uk

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