[arch] Arch has gone *too* slow

[arnuld]

> On Feb 23, 11:58 pm, RedShift <redsh... at pandora.be> wrote:
> arnuld wrote:
> > i am using "Arch Voodo beta1" . everything was working fine, i did not
> > have any troubles. then suddenly, 1 hour ago, after a reboot it went
> > too slow. 1st GDM took a long time to come up, then  "login" into
> > either Xfce or GNOME is taking too much of time. i opened Terminal and
> > it took too long to open, same with xine. every application is running
> > slow. even Xfce is taking  a long time to log-out.
>
> > BUT command-line is working *fine*, as i tried other "virtual
> > terminals" (using C-A-Fx where x= 1,2,3 etc.) only X has ran into
> > troubles.
>
> > what exactly had happened to X?
>
> Please check if the entries in /etc/hosts are correct.

they are fine. see:

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#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1       arch    localhost.localdomain   localhost

# End of file
[arnuld at arch ~]$
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