Long delay at first login

furanku · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:23 pm Post subject: Long delay at first login

I played a bit around with pam and other use-flags. Now i experience a long delay at the first login, no matter if its at KDM or via ssh from a remote machine. If I login via kdm, the login dialog disappears and and it takes a minute untill the splash screen appears, via ssh I see the first line of the remote hoste (was it "Last login .."?) and then the login process hangs for a minute.

After the delay everything coninues normally, also second logins don't show the delay.

I guess it's sth. like DNS lookups, wrong domian names, ... Something that causes a timout in the first place but is cached after that.

I would be happy if someone with more experience on that topic could give me some hints how to systematicalle track down the problem instead of the chaotically try&error method.

anb.clarke · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 31

How is your network setup? Dhcpcd, static IP, networkmanager : it'd be easier to diagnose

furanku · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:34 am Post subject:

It's dhcpd with fallback to autoip. Here's /etc/conf.d/net:

anb.clarke · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 31

Personally, i''d try using a static IP first. If improvement occurs then you know your dhcp is failing - then return to dhcp and tweak:

get current IP

furanku · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:53 am Post subject:

Arrrrgh!

Thanks! Correcting that typo solved the problem. I still don't know how that caused the delay, since that was just a fallback option, but who cares, if it works!

Thanks, again!