I am not sure what has gone wrong, but all of a sudden (yeah, pfffff, how many times have we heard that one.... :O ) Konqueror and Ktorrent take absolute forever to open. Literally five minutes or more.... WTF??? Any ideas?
Try creating another user and seeing if you get the same results using the new account. If it's still the same, then just try doing a system update. If you're running Sid, you may get this from time to time. It's usually fixed within a day or so.
I found it really weird but I will follow your advice. I tried re-installing both but the problem stays.... Really strange. Never had this before... Now, another weird behaviour - when I start FireFox it starts in a flash. Good right? So then I start another instance, instead of just opening a new tab. What happens then is that another instance of FireFox opens but also it looks like the system tries to open a third instance. However, this attempts never materialise and after about 30 seconds the third attempt disappears..... Does this makes sense? Not to me..... AAAAnyway..... thanks Addis. Will post back if I have news...
UPDATE - I have created a new account and logged in. Everything seem to be perfectly normal here apart from two issues which I have for both accounts: For some reason, my eth0 interface which always loaded automatically on start up will not start. So every time I start the computer, I need to activate the interface..... When I shut down, the text scrolling gets stuck on the line where portman daemon is stopping. Then the only way to shut the PC down is with the main switch...... WTHIGO??? Now.... I am sure all these problems are due to something stupid I have done but what? :O
It could be an internal DNS resolution issue, believe it or not. Make sure that your /etc/hosts file is populated. For example: Code: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Crow ...There's mine. Localhost.localdomain and localhost should both be populated so the system can resolve itself. Also, note that my machine name is 'crow', so it can also resolve itself that way.
Thanks AT. Not sure if it is due to editing the hosts file but the problem of the long initialising seems to have gone. This is my hosts file at the moment: I am still left with the problem of my eth0 interface not loading at start.... Thanks for your help, AT!
Right! The problems are back! K3b took 10 minutes to open, so did Konqueror. My eth0 ethernet interface will not load at start and it is really annoying to re-activate it each time. The last thing I am going to try is create another account and get rid of the one I have now. If nothing works I will go for a fresh install.... Any more suggestions or ideas will be greatly welcomed... Update: I think I have an idea what's going on - It seems that I can enable the eth0 manually only through a Gnome :x: interface. When I try and do it via the KDE Control Centre I just get a message that there was a problem and that I will have to enable the interface manually :doh: I am going for a fresh install. I understand from AT that if I install Sarge, choose KDE as default, add the Etch repos and upgrade, I should kiss gnome and all it's little helpers goodbye. I do not mind because I did not have anything of any importance on my drive so..... here I go..... See you on the other side and :swear: Gnome free.
You might just want to do a net-install of Etch or Sid instead of upgrading from Sarge. You can still choose your packages and deselect Gnome. As for your network problem, you might just want to make your rc.local behave the old-fashioned way... Code: echo '#!/bin/sh' > /etc/rc.local chmod 744 /etc/rc.local RL=`grep ':initdefault:' /etc/inittab | cut -d: -f2` echo "LO:$RL:once:/etc/rc.local" >> /etc/inittab killall -HUP init ...then add a line to it to pull up your eth0 interface... Code: echo "ifup eth0" >> /etc/rc.local ...then your system will automatically pull up eth0 when it boots. Just a quick hack, not the proper way to do it, but I think it'll work.
Thanks AT! I have gone for a fresh install with the Etch net-install. It is so much quicker than anything I have ever tried. I think I will stick with Etch for a while... I had a small problem to start with as I could not connect to the xsrver from the terminal (like opening a file with an editor) but I managed to find a solution in the end. Slowly slowly.... there is a saying in hebrew: One cow at a time, we will :swear: the whole herd. :doh:
Also, you can make KDE even more responsive by turning off a few services which run by default. I've attached a screenshot of how mine's configured.
