Re: Suddenly: very slow graphics startup

[Paul Stolp <paulywall@myrealbox.com>]

> Roby wrote:
> >Something has gone awry in my Sarge KDE setup (born as Libranet).  Boot is
> >normal through the initial text-mode part: the last message saying that GDM
> >is starting.  It then switches to graphics mode and I see the rolling
> >hourglass cursor for 25 seconds before GDM login box appears, with constant
> >disk access throughout that period.  On my other Sarge box, the hourglass
> >delay is just a few seconds.  Hardware is nearly the same on both.
> >

Missed your initial mail, so responding here ... I think this has come
up before, but "fc-cache -f" as root may fix up your problem.
Paul
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