Software taking a long time to load on FreeBSD6

[Subhro]

Levi Campbell sat at his 'puter and typed on 5/20/2006 8:51:
> Why is it that some applications like x11, ratpoison, and firefox come up
> instantly while applications like xmms, emacs and thunderbird take about
> five minutes to load? I've tried several things to try and fix this.
>
>
>   - I've deinstalled packages to see if ports was any better and vice
>   versa.
>   - I've cleaned out /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/lock and checked free
>   space.
>   - getting the vanilla sources from the origional FTP site and
>   compiling them

Does the hostname for your system resolve? If not, either set it up or 
put proper entries in /etc/hosts

Thanks and Best Regards
Subhro