KDE4 - panel takes ages (10+ minutes) to show up

[Jan De Luyck <ml_debiankde_20070717@kcore.org>]

Hello folks,

I've got a weird problem, which I can't seem to find a solution for:

After starting KDE 4 (startx), the panel (plasma I think it's called?) takes 
more than 10 minutes to show up. 

Also, during this time, I see that there are a ton of accesses to the 
filesystems handled by my automount daemon (eg my cd drives, and my NAS 
mounts). I have no idea if this is related or not. Shutting down automount 
prior to starting KDE4 has no impact on the start time.

While waiting for plasma, I can start applications I have shortcuts defined 
for, but that's it. Luckely xterm is one of those, so I can still go ahead and 
do some work.

anyone any idea how i could diagnose/fix this? 

Kind regards

Jan

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