[ubuntu-za] Slow Ubuntu Installation

[Lee Sharp]

On 01/30/2013 12:53 AM, Charl Wentzel wrote:

> I then logged in on another virtual terminal and watched what happened
> in top. The login in process took just as long and serveral processes
> were fired up during the login; "login", "bash" and a few others in
> between. In each case the CPU usage by that process went to 100% while
> it was running. Nothing seemed particularly odd except for the duration.
> Why would "bash" run for 20 seconds at 100% CPU usage before giving me a
> login prompt?
> I tried a few other commands such as "ls" and "nano". Although slow,
> they started/finished quite quickly. "sudo" was another command that
> took a long time to execute.

That sounds to me like PAM is locking...  Anything requiring 
authentication is hanging 20 seconds...  I have seen that before on a 
samba box.  Fixed it by turning off WINS, but I think that was only a 
symptom.  Never found the problem.

			Lee