Re: [gnome-love] logging in to a jhbuild GNOME takes minutes

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:13:00PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 3/18/06, Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I log into a freshly build GNOME 2.14 environment (built with
> > jhbuild) the login remains at the splash screen for several minutes.
> >
> > Any suggestions what could be wrong and what I might do to solve this?
> 
> Is the login actually frozen, or can you dismiss the splash screen by
> either clicking on it or launching something from the panel?  For me,
> it's the latter -- everything is up and running but the splash screen
> doesn't go away for some reason.

I've also heard of this happening if the IP for localhost isn't defined.
Make sure that 'ping localhost' in a terminal gives you back pings to
127.0.0.1.  If not, add 

127.0.0.1 localhost

to /etc/hosts

alan

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