Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-32,: Re: 2.4 gives 1 minute delay on login.

# Re: 2.4 gives 1 minute delay on login.

Happy (alexg@myself.com)
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 12:10:59 -0300 (ADT)

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i had this problem too, i ran tcpdump on the loop back device and found
some rpc traffic, so i started portmap and logins were fast again.

that other fix that was posted works better.

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 ghislain_leblanc@iname.com wrote:

> Hi, I am using Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test5 (already tried all the test
> versions) on a system build from scratch with the source codes of
> everything. I used the 2.4.0 include files. I tried compiling the
> kernel from my bare homemade system and on my RedHat 6.2 partition. In
> any of these cases, the problem is the same...
>
> When I type in my username & password, there is a 1 minute delay
> before login actually accepts my password. The CPU stands mostly idle
> during this time, meaning the problem probably has something to do
> with some time outs or delay loops somewhere. If I use 2.2.16 on the
> SAME barebone system, no problem. Using 2.4.0 on RedHat, no
> problem.The most interesting fact here is that this problem only
> happens if I have some network adapters configured with ifconfig, even
> only loopback will do the thing. By the way, I tried with two
> different versions of GCC: GCC-2.95.2 and egcs-1.1.2
>
> My network cars is a Vortex/Boomrang from 3con (3C905).
> To se how my system is configured: www.linuxfromscratch.com

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