On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:31:54PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Did a dist-upgrade over the weekend on sid and a few gnome updates came
> in.
>
> Now everything is really slow to start - including the gdm greeter.
>
> CPU maxes out as a process starts and stays there doing nothing for a
> few seconds. Once the program has loaded, it seems to run normally. But
> it means to takes a good 30 seconds to log in by the time you wait for
> gdm, metacity, gnome-terminal, nautilus, panel, etc to all pause and
> rise there CPU usage. :(
>
> I ran a test on a clean account - it is slow if I log in through gdm,
> but normal if I start gnome via startx.
Actually - I take that back. Cleaning the account helps, but this still
does not explain why GDM itself is slow. There is a quite a long pause
before the login screen appears both on statup and when you log out.
>
> My normal account is slow using both methods.
>
> There is nothing out of the ordinary in ~/.xsession-errors or
> /var/log/XFree86.*.log
>
> Any clues? It's rather annoying :(
>
>
> cheers
>
> dc
>
>
--
David Purton
dcpurton@chariot.net.au
For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to
strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
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