Gnome slow at start up

Sun Dec 7 12:35:28 PST 2008

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:11:08 -0600, Fernando Apesteguía
>> <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> [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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> I like it. ;-) Anyway, I think it looks fine. I am not sure what made your
>> GNOME slow, so you should do ktrace as marcus has requested.
>
> I'll go for ktrace ASAP (currently the machine is doing some stuff in
> Linux). Should I ktrace metacity, nautilus or both?
>
> Thanks

Here you are,

This is the output of ktrac'ing the metacity process.
I attached ktrace to the process once Gnome stalled, and dettached it
when nautilus was able to start up.

Cheers

>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>>
>> --
>> mezz7 at cox.net  -  mezz at FreeBSD.org
>> FreeBSD GNOME Team
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/  -  gnome at FreeBSD.org
>>
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