[SOLVED]Re: FreeBSD6.0-Beta5 / Gnome2 / PF -> bad combination?

[Roger Grosswiler]

Marcin Jessa wrote:
> AFAIR Gnome checks for IP corresponding to the hostname of
> the system. If they dont match or are missing, gnome will take way
> longer to start.
> 
> Marcin.
> 
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:22:02 +0800
> "Lin, Cheng-tao(psilotum)" <psilotum.ptt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> :hi Grosswiler:
> :
> :I've encountered such situation(but actually it wasn't with pf, i just
> :modified the default value of sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole and gnome
> :started slowly),
> :I hope this may solve your problem:
> :
> :http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20
> :
> :regards,
> :
> :cheng-tao
> :On 10/1/05, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> wrote:
> :> i updated to 6.0 Beta5, which did my UMA-Lock. This has gone. But
> still, :> Gnome needs minutes to get on Desktop.
> :>
> :> If pf is enabled (with standard-rules enabled in /etc/pf.conf) it
> takes :> minutes to get the desktop. Disabling pf brings the desktop up
> in seconds. :>
> :> Problem: i don't get any message in my logs i could send with. Does
> :> anybody know about an issue with pf and gnome?
> :>
> :> Thx,
> :> Roger
> :>
ok, i did it - it is in fact gnome contacting localhost on startup. so, 
i added 2 rules (pass in all on 127.0.0.1 to lo0.... and same for pass 
out...)

now it works fine.

Thanks,
Roger