Help button slow to start up

[camerons]

Running osgeo-live 5.0rc5 (also called 5.0), mini iso run in Virtual Box VM.

Select the "Help" button on the desktop immediately after startup. Right click on button, select execute.

The CPU meter in the task bar shows solid green for 30 secs or so (100% CPU usage?).

Browser opens up at ​http://localhost/ and stays at that page for 60 secs or so. (This is an empty page, with just headers and footers and no content).

Then the page is redirected (as it should be) to ​http://localhost/en/index.html

Proposed fix is to have the desktop icon open ​http://localhost/en/index.html instead of ​http://localhost

[hamish]

I suspect you'd just sit there waiting for the other url then. apache is either up or it ain't.

I also suspect it's just a local problem..? can anyone else reproduce it?

shrug, Hamish

[camerons]

By increasing the RAM size from 512 Meg to 768 Meg, this problem goes away. However, it still wouldn't hurt to open up directly at ​http://localhost/en/index.html