I have a strange problem with Mandrake Linux 10.1 Community Edition. Every time I start, after logging in (X has started and the Nvidia splash screen has been shown. After that the login screen comes up.), the systems pauses for about 5 minutes. After that it continues to load. Any idea why? Sometimes this does not happen, but if it dont, the systems seems prone to locking up. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will return to the promt but after 5 minutes it loads the login screen. Any ideas what the problem might be?

Please, anyone who has any idea?

Yes, you probably have a problem with the powermanagement options; play around with them. My friend had this problem with the NVidia chipset on his motherboard. Type drakconf-->Boot-->Boot Loader, and tell me what boxes you have checked.

Here is all the info on that menu : (This is roughly translated from my swedish version, so it might sound a bit wrong).

Bootmanager to use : Lilo with graphical menu

Boot unit : /dev/hda

Delay until... : 10

Activate ACPI : Not checked

Force no APIC : Not checked

Force no local APIC : Not checked

And after I pressed the "Advanced" button this appeared :

Clean /tmp on every boot : Not checked

Amount of RAM (if necessary) (found 256 mb) : Nothing

If there are other things I should check, tell me. This is all info that was on that page.

I have the first checked and the other two not checked, and mine is stable. I can ask my friend what he has checked, but try what I have first. Make sure to reboot because you're editing a LILO boot option.

*crosses fingers*

Sorry, that didn't helped. Could you please check which options your friend has...

Sorry it took so long, but he hasn't been at his computer lately.. he has ONLY the third one checked: Force no local APIC.

Hope it works...

there was a bug that when i accesed home or any other directory it hanged

the solution is to edit /etc/hosts and add ur host name at the end
here is mine :

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost linux

then edit /etc/rc.sysinit and change HOSTNAME=localhost to HOSTNAME=<ur hostname>
mine is HOSTNAME=linux

Sorry, didn't work either. It seems to have to do with something else.