Slow login from GDM

[Martin Lorentzson]

Paul Tader <netnews at linuxscope.com> writes:

> Martin Lorentzson wrote:
> > I'm having problem with slow login. 

> DNS/name resolution?  Doesn't Gnome have problems if it can't resolve
> the host name?

Yes!  Thanks!  My /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf contained invalid
entries for localhost that made it try to erratically resolve the
hostname.  Problem solved!

Using the virtual terminal trick was very useful too, thanks
Alexander.

/Martin Lorentzson