On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:10 PM, d.zanon@infinito.it wrote:
> After a fresh NetBSD 2.0_BETA install on my i386, at the first
> boot startx was very fast and X came up in about three seconds, but at 
> the second boot that command doesn't do anything for more than 3 
> minutes.
> After that, it says "xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "abc:0" in 
> "list" command"

Sounds like a DNS timeout, and/or your hostname isn't being recognized. 
  Verify that /etc/resolv.conf is set up right and/or check what's in 
/etc/hosts...

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-Chuck