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Re: ~20 second delay starting xdm



On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:30:00AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >> Upon starting xdm, I notice a delay, and several messages like
> >> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o":  No symbols found
> >> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o":  No symbols found
> >> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
> 
> M> These have been around for a while, and they're still as harmless as ever.
> 
> OK, but how about the new ~20 second delay from the starting of X when the
> screen goes black, till one finally gets the xdm login screen?  With
> no per-line time stamps in /var/log/xdm.log, who knows just what line
> there is responsible, if any?

Turn on xdm's debugging and run it interactively; perhaps you will see
which operation(s) take a lot of time.

The manpage describes how to do this.

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