fix for "initializing system services" hang

From: mbc (mbc_at_debian.org)
Date: 04/27/04

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    Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:19:52 -0700
To: lauri@kde.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org

    I just want to share this with everyone because it's been maddening for
    me to try to fix it.

    On two separate fresh debian sarge installs, with kde 3.1, I've
    encountered this bug.

    Upon logging in to kde, the splash screen would hang at "Initializing
    System Services" and then give me a blank screen. About 5 minutes later,
    the desktop would come up. Then, any time I wanted to load a kde app,
    like konqueror, it would take 5 minutes to launch.

    After cleaning my tmp dir and removing my ~/.kde dir, as people told me
    on irc, I still had the problem.

    I finally realized that the actual cause was that I was missing my lo
    stanza in my /etc/network/interfaces

    adding this to /etc/network/interfaces:

    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    and rebooting, everything works perfectly.

    I'm not sure what's a good place to document this, so I'm emailing both
    this user list and the kde documentation folks.

    Thanks,

      michael 

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