Gnome became slow

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Leonardo Midolo wrote:

> Hi,
> yesterday I've noticed that many gnome applications became suddenly
> really slow to start up (15-20 seconds, before they took 2-3 s).
> Also the entire gnome startup became slow (around 2/3 minutes).
> I'm running gnome 2.16 (compiled from ports and up to date) on FreeBSD
> 6.2 RC1.
> I think this happened after a power outage, but I'm not sure.
> All non-gnome applications still run fine (apache, postgres, firefox,
> mplayer...).
> Gnome-terminal works fine but takes a long long time to open new tabs.
> I recompiled gconf and gnome-session but nothing changed. I've also read
> the faq "why gnome is so slow...", but my configuration seems ok. I
> can't understand what happened and what to do to restore gnome's
> original speed.
> Any help or suggestion is really appreciated!
Did you set
 	gnome_enable="YES"
in your /etc/rc.conf ? 
(See  http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 )
This seemed to repair some strange things on my system.

Just a guess,

Uli.

>
> Thanks
> Leonardo Midolo
>
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany