All my applications take forever to load

[2blind2c]

Hi,
Thanks for reading. I'm running SUSE10.2 KDE on an Athlon 1700, NVidia 5500(with 128M), and 512M of memory. I'm having issues loading most application programs, so I don't think this is SUSE specific.

All my applications are taking minutes to load and I just ran strace out to a file on something simple like konqueror. There are messages in this file I don't understand, and was hoping someone with a deeper understanding of how programs load might be able to comment on. Here's a couple of lines; the entire log is very large....:

execve("/opt/kde3/bin/konqueror", ["konqueror", "--profile", "filemanagement"], [/* 70 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x804a000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/i686/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/i686/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/tls/i686/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/tls/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/i686/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=156276, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 156276, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f60000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/opt/kde3/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\302\4"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=929936, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f5f000
mmap2(NULL, 933112, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e7b000
madvise(0xb7e7b000, 933112, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
mmap2(0xb7f56000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xda) = 0xb7f56000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/tls/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/qt3/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300Y\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1404242, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1176988, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d5b000
madvise(0xb7d5b000, 1176988, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
mmap2(0xb7e74000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x118) = 0xb7e74000
mmap2(0xb7e78000, 9628, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e78000
close(3)= 0

It goes on for days like this. Are there any thoughts on what's going on here? My knee jerk is it's time to re-install my distro, but before I do this, I thought I might ask the question on this forum, and see if anyone might come back with a simple solution(I know there's no such thing
Thanks for looking in on this post!
Cheers,
Peter

[2blind2c]

Hi,

I think I've found the answer to all of this. Basically, localhost was unavailable. Once again I don't know the relationship between the applications and localhost, but I did notice complaints in my warning log.

So, I issued the following from the root terminal
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1 //received SIOCADDRT: No such device
ifconfig lo

Now everything seems to be loading as it should. Don't know if this might help anyone; your mileage may vary....
Cheers,
Peter

[bigtomrodney]

Thanks for posting back ths solution on this. I'm just catching your thread now but this is pretty interesting. I remember there was something about this in Ubuntu because they changed localhost to 127.0.0.2 - apparently a lot of applications check the host name using some localhost trickery.