Gnome slow at start up

Sat Dec 6 13:11:10 PST 2008

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:32:21 -0600, Fernando Apesteguía
> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Can you show us your /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts? Also, output of 'ping
> `hostname`'. Do you have your own DNS cache server? If you do, have you
> check to make sure you have same hostname with your DNS cache and your
> machine? A few months ago, one of my friend asked me to help on his machine
> for samba problem in GNOME when trying to double click on his samba icon for
> slowness and not really works very well. It turned out that his DNS cache
> server (he forgot to change/update in his DNS cache) was mismatch the
> hostname in his personal machine. Althought, it doesn't affect slow issue on
> his GNOME desktop but only on samba icon.

Hi again,

Here you are:

[fernape at beastie /usr/home/fernape]$ ping -c 5 `hostname`
PING beastie (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.026 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.025 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.023 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.020 ms

--- beastie ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.020/0.023/0.026/0.002 ms

[fernape at beastie /usr/home/fernape]$ cat /etc/rc.conf

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Nov 26 23:05:58 2008
# Created: Wed Nov 26 23:05:58 2008
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="beastie"
ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
inetd_enable="YES"
keymap="spanish.iso.acc"
moused_enable="YES"
saver="logo"
sshd_enable="YES"

# Enable Dump Device (Ape)
dumpdev="/dev/ad4s4b"
dumpdir="/var/crash"

# Enable dbus and HAL
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

# Disable sendmail cause I'm not gonna use it (Ape)
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Nov 27 18:18:36 2008
ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
hostname="beastie"
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Nov 30 18:57:01 2008
saver="daemon"

[fernape at beastie /usr/home/fernape]$ cat /etc/hosts
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.16 2003/01/28 21:29:23 dbaker Exp $
#
# Host Database
#
# This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that
# share this file.  Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your
# machine.
#
# In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may
# not be consulted at all; see /etc/nsswitch.conf for the resolution order.
#
#
::1			localhost localhost.my.domain
#127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1		beastie localhost localhost.my.domain gnome-rocks
gnome-rocks.mydomain.com
#
# Imaginary network.
#10.0.0.2		myname.my.domain myname
#10.0.0.3		myfriend.my.domain myfriend
#
# According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for
# private nets which will never be connected to the Internet:
#
#	10.0.0.0	-   10.255.255.255
#	172.16.0.0	-   172.31.255.255
#	192.168.0.0	-   192.168.255.255
#
# In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need
# real official assigned numbers.  Do not try to invent your own network
# numbers but instead get one from your network provider (if any) or
# from your regional registry (ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE NCC, or AfriNIC.)
#

Cheers

>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Cheers
>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
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