Long delays in Gnome2 start up

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:39:45 +0000, Stacey Roberts 
<stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:

> Hi Mezz.,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
> To: To Stacey Roberts
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar, 2004 21:29 GMT
> Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up
>
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:17:03 +0000, Stacey Roberts
>> <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
>>
>> >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.
>>
>> A spare user with no GNOME personal directories? Do you mean, it does
>> login faster on the spare user?
>
> Yes. I often create two users that I can use, but only use one. I've 
> never had the need to use any other than my primary user, so when this 
> problem started last night I figured on checking to see if it happens 
> for everyone (including root).
>
> As things turned out, both root and the other (spare) user can log in 
> fine.
>
> Thought I should also mention that for my primary user (the account for 
> whom the delays occur), I'd already tried the following: -
>
> 1] rm -rf .g*
> 2] rm -rf .esd*
> 3] Ran startx
> 4] Gnome2 starts fine
> 5] Do nothing
> 6] Log off
> 7] Run startx again
> 8] Long delay in Gnome2 startup
>
> I've done that procedure about four times now, just to make sure I 
> wasn't going crazy.

Umm, if it works fine on root and other users then it must be problem 
somewhere in your primary user. So, if you reinstall GNOME and you might 
still have the same problem. :-) Can you try do the full one? Like this:

rm -rf .ICE* .Trash .Xauth* .gconf* .gnome* .gtk* .esd* .fonts.cache-1 
.meta* .nau* .recent* .thumb* .xscreen*

Also, there have few stuff in the /var/tmp/ like this:

gconfd-${user} mapping-${user} orbit-${user}

So, change from ${user} to your primary user then try to remove them. I 
don't know if it will help, but I think it's a worth shot. Also, be sure 
to check in the top or ps to make sure one of GNOME's app exit correct 
before you try to do the startx again. This is my last suggest what I can 
think of, before you want to reinstall GNOME.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks for the reply, by the way.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stacey
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> >>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
>> >>
>> >>
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