Long delays in Gnome2 start up

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello Mezz..,
      Thanks for the reply.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
To: To stacey at vickiandstacey.com
Date: Thu, 11 Mar, 2004 19:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up

> Try to create a new dummy user like tester to see if your GNOME will 
> startup faster. If so, then there are something wrong in one of in your 
> personal directory like ~/.gnome2, ~/.gconf and etc. You can remove these 
> directories on your normal user and let GNOME to startup fresh.
> 

No need to, I already have a spare user on the box to use for this. As I suspected, logging in with that other user results in a fast Gnome2 startup.

> One more thing, make sure your hostname is working. X will startup very 
> slow if you don't have the correct hostname. IE: fix the /etc/hosts by add 
> your hostname in it point on 127.0.0.1.

This is not a problem.

What *has* become a problem that I've noticed as well, is the fact that even attempting to log out of Gnome2 takes almost 5 minutes now too. This is the time from clicking on "Actions", "Log Out".., desktop locks up.., five minutes later, the confirmation dialogue box appears. Clicking on "Okay", results in the log out then proceeding as per normal.

> 
> BTW: reinstall apps aren't always a solution.

One would think that, but at the end of the day, I'm inclined to reinstall something that's broken, rather than work with something that was "hacked back together". The fact that this machine was up and running well after the reinstall of Gnome back in 2002.

Thanks again for taking the time.

Regards,

Stacey

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:07:05 +0000, Stacey Roberts 
> <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >     I've just had a strangely familiar problem re-occur with me
> >tonight.
> >
> >For some reason, when I try to start gnome2 (with startx) there is a
> >very long delay before the splash thingy appears - almost 4 minutes. I
> >mentioned familiar for the simple reason that this exact problem
> >happened to me a couple of years ago, whilst I was running Gnome-1.2 (I
> >think).
> >
> >The short story of the eventual fix for me then was to reinstall Gnome.
> >I am now wondering if anyone is able to help me with this problem now
> >appearing now that I'm running Gnome-2.4.2.
> >
> >I'll include what details I think are relevant here, but if there's any
> >information I can add, please let me know.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >Like I said, if there's anything else I can offer, then let me know.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Stacey
> 
> 
> -- 
> bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
> 

-- 
Stacey Roberts
B. Sc (HONS) Computer Science

Web: www.vickiandstacey.com
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