Gnome slow at start up

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:04:00 -0600, Fernando Apesteguía  
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 for AMD64.
>
> With this version, Gnome starts up very slowly. If I take a look at
> the session properties window, it seems nautilus takes a very long
> time trying to connect. However, after some time, it connects but the
> gnome-wm script is marked as Status UNKNOWN (That column of the
> treeview is not documented and I had to look at the code...).
> So it seems at the end, metacity is somehow stalled during start up.
>
> The --purge-delay=5000 as suggested here
> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=445) causes other
> processes (gnome-at-visual and gnome-volume-manager) to be marked as
> not connected
>
> If I only set the --warn-delay=5000 I get gnome-wm (metacity in my
> case) to be marked as not responding.
>
> In the end, everything seems to work fine. However IMHO, it is a bit
> dirty to use these two options because they only mask the problem, but
> it seems clear there are some faulting processes.
>
> Any ideas of what the problem is?

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks in advance.


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