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secsec1

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Jun 28, 2003, 3:03:29 PM6/28/03
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Hi all,

I would appreciate some help with the following:

I have a Redhat 8 machine setup. From the first time I booted it after
installing redhat, I experienced a timeout of about 30 seconds at
login.

This happens when logging into Gnome, I can enter my user name and
password just fine but then the system seems to hang for 30s.

The same behaviour occurs when, once logged in, I try to 'su' to root.
The system asks again for password and then hangs for 30 seconds.

On the other hand when I start an application that needs root
priviliges, as the services gui does, I can enter the password and the
system does not hand.

Does anybody have any clues of where to start looking? I checked the
system logs but nothing suspicious shows up.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Wim

secsec1

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Jul 8, 2003, 11:31:43 AM7/8/03
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Just in case someone experiences the same problem.

During installation and during setup of the network I entered
inadvertently an IP address for DNS server. I'm behind a proxy so
there is no DNS.

This setup, 'a wrong DNS server setting' results in de failures as
mentioned in previous message.

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