Gnome slow at start up

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 21:06 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> 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?
>
> You can try ktrace'ing the slow-start processes to see if that yields
> anything interesting.  However, it would be more beneficial to have
> these binaries compiled with debugging symbols, then use gdb to get
> backtraces from them when they're starting up.

I will try with ktrace or truss to see what happens.

>
> That said, the problem may be some bad configuration pieces.  You might
> try creating a new, clean account, and see if the problem shows up
> there.

Yes, it does. I created a new account on the system and I got the same
result. I have a laptop running 7.0 Release -p5 and I only added the
lines to /etc/hosts to speed up gnome. Nothing else was necessary.

Cheers

>
> Joe
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