Slow startup time with gnome

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Sep 30 03:33:57 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:32 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:36:17 -0500, <mailinglist at ahhyes.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am running Freebsd 7.1 Beta/i386
> >
> > I have a weird problem where gnome takes a very long time to start up.  
> > After logging in via gdm, the application menu and task bar at the  
> > bottom appears instantly, but the gnome splash screen stays in the  
> > middle of the screen for a good 2-3 minutes. No desktop icons are  
> > visible. After a couple of minutes has elapsed, the desktop icons appear  
> > and everything seems normal.
> >
> > I am able to ping $HOSTNAME (so it wouldn't be dns slowing things down)
> > I also have gnome_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > I am not seeing anything major in my .xsession-errors, just a couple of  
> > warnings about secure memory for gnome keyring.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20
> 
> > and this:
> >
> > ** (nautilus:1853): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
> >
> > This has me scratching my head. Any ideas on where I can start looking?
> 
> I don't know what it is either, but in Linux world has it too.

This comes from the nautilus-cd-burner backend, and it can be ignored.

Joe

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