...5.1b5 won't start up???

[Jonathan Tyzack]

 From a post at MacNN:

"I installed 10.3.7 on three different computers...all of them ran 
slow. What caught my eye was how slow Web pages loaded after upgrading. 
It was taking 2 to 3 minutes when it took a few seconds on 10.3.6. My 
mail program would not respond...I remembered a problem with a previous 
OS: The DHCP would not get stored correctly, [but] if you put in valid 
DNS numbers in the Network [preferences], Safari would work just fine. 
I put in the DNS numbers in all three computers and everything 
including Mail works just fine."

Does that help at all?? There's quite a bit about this at MacFixit.com 
as well and this appears to do the trick.

Cheers,

Jonathan

On 18 Dec 2004, at 16:00, Neil Lee wrote:

> Le 18 déc. 2004, à 06:05, Gregory Block a écrit :
>
>> Just had the odd experience of launching it from a mail link for the 
>> first time (dialog pops up with the whole 'are you sure' bit, and 
>> then bouncing icon) to find that, well, it's not actually starting 
>> up.  It's hanging for a really, really long time, but it's not 
>> actually doing anything, it never opens the first window, and it's 
>> just sitting in the background.  Churning CPU.
>
> You must be running OS 10.3.7 - there's a bug I've encountered which 
> causes certain applications which initiate network connections at 
> launch (Safari, OW, Mail, and others) to hang for up to 2-3 minutes. 
> If you disconnect from the network (unplug your Ethernet cable, 
> disable Airport) these applications should then launch immediately.
>
> I logged a fairly extensive bug report with Apple at 
> bugreport.apple.com, so hopefully something will get done quickly.
>
> Neil
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