| Stephen Gran on 25 Oct 2005 19:23:31 -0000 |
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:20:35AM -0400, Art Alexion said: > Seems I am having trouble displaying the contents of some of the > "special" directories. The problem is a huge delay, not a permissions > issue. The affected directories are: > > * ~/Documents > * ~/Desktop, and > * ~/.trash > > Other subdirectories of ~ do not seem to be affected. Nor do > subdirectories of the affected directories, e.g. ~/Documents/how-tos. > > This happened to me once before, lasted about a month and then cured > itself. Never figured out the cause. > > I am using Kubuntu 5.04 (hoary). > > Any ideas? Suggestions? If it's a random delay of approximately 30 seconds, I am guessing name resolution problems. X and KDE both use hostname information, and if it's limited to 'special' directories for KDE, that's my first thought. Check that your /etc/hosts looks correct, try getent hosts $hostname, etc. If all of those work out, check your filesystem and you disks. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | It's the thought, if any, that counts! | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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