Gnome slow at start up

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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

My bad,

I should have pointed this out as reference:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-December/188032.html

Any more ideas?

>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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