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Re: how to boot & startx without internet connection?


From: Charles Rapenne <charles.rapenne@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:52:30 +0200

Hello,

Does dfly.llaisdy.com point to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts ?
Usually it is recommended to put the machine name to 127.0.0.1 in the
hosts file.

Regards

2013/4/12 Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@llaisdy.com>:
> Dear All
>
> I have recently installed dragonflybsd.  Configs and installations seem to
> be going well, apart from two strange behaviours, possibly linked. If I'm
> connected to the internet everything is fine but, if I'm not:
>
> (a) during boot, the machine stops at
>
>     Starting sshd
>
> I leave it for 5 minutes, but no progress.  If I ctrl-c, it finishes the
> rest of the boot (presumably abandoning start sshd).
>
> (b) Starting X without an internet connection is very slow, but does
> eventually get through.  e.g.:
>
>     > startx
>
>     xauth: file /home/ivan/.serverauth.812 does not exist
>     ... wait 2 mins ...
>
>     xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "dfly.llaisdy.com.2" in "list" command
>     ... wait 1 min ...
>
>     - into X!
>
> Please could someone explain why these things happen, and how I can make the
> computer easier to use when I don't have an internet connection.
>
> With thanks and best wishes
>
> Ivan
>
> --
> ============================================================
> Ivan A. Uemlianin PhD
> Llaisdy
> Speech Technology Research and Development
>
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>
>                         festina lente
> ============================================================



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