gnome slow startup

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 6 19:14:34 UTC 2010


On 8/6/10 3:07 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>> On 8/6/10 2:32 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>> On 8/6/10 1:46 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>>>> On 8/6/10 1:08 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>>>> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>>>>>> On 8/6/10 12:52 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>>>>>>>> On 8/6/10 12:38 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/6/10 11:25 AM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2010/8/5 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 8/5/10 12:38 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Recently I updated to 8.1-RELEASE and since then gnome-panel takes up
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to 1 minute to show up.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I read about a problem with consolekit. I'm using consolekit-0.4.1_4.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is there going to be and update
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for this soon?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That is the latest version of consolekit, and it has the fix.  How are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> you starting GNOME?  What is the output of ck-list-sessions?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm launching GNOME with "startx"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My .xinitrc looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ck-list-sessions doesn't show anything.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome .
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> HAL and DBus are run at boot in my system. I don't run avahi as I
>>>>>>>>>>> don't think it is really necessary, is it?.
>>>>>>>>>>> I used "exec ck-launch-session gnome-session" in my .xinitrc but
>>>>>>>>>>> nothing changes. I still have the same delay and the same message
>>>>>>>>>>> "Could not ask session manager if shut down is available"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What does ck-list-sessions show?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Session1:
>>>>>>>>>       unix-user = '1001'
>>>>>>>>>       realname = 'Fernando Apesteguia Santiago'
>>>>>>>>>       seat = 'Seat1'
>>>>>>>>>       session-type = ''
>>>>>>>>>       active = FALSE
>>>>>>>>>       x11-display = ''
>>>>>>>>>       x11-display-device = ''
>>>>>>>>>       display-device = 'ttyv0'
>>>>>>>>>       remote-host-name = ''
>>>>>>>>>       is-local = TRUE
>>>>>>>>>       on-since = '2010-08-06T16:24:10.991764Z'
>>>>>>>>>       login-session-id = ''
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Post the output of /usr/local/libexec/ck-get-x11-display-device, and the
>>>>>>>> output of:
>>>>>>> $ /usr/local/libexec/ck-get-x11-display-device
>>>>>>> /dev/ttyv8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> fstat -p `cat "/tmp/.X${dispnum}-lock"`
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  fstat -p `cat "/tmp/.X0-lock"`
>>>>>>> USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   wd /        31889777 drwxr-xr-x    3072  r
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434 text /        31727588 -r-sr-xr-x  1760848  r
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    0 /        5346936 -rw-r--r--   57765  w
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    1* internet6 stream tcp ffffff00066ee000
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    2 /dev         45 crw-------   ttyv0 rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    3* internet stream tcp ffffff00066eda50
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    4* local stream ffffff00066a1000
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    5 /        848023 -r--r--r--   31246  r
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    6 /dev         53 crw-------   ttyv8 rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    7 /dev         34 crw-r--r--     pci rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    8 /dev         27 crw-r-----     mem rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434    9 /dev         29 crw-------      io rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   10* local stream ffffff0006189b40 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff000617cd20
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   11 /dev         13 crw-------  sysmouse rw
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   12* local stream ffffff00065a7d20 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff00065a7e10
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   13* local stream ffffff00065a7960 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff00065a7a50
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   14* local stream ffffff000617c1e0 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff000617c000
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   15* local stream ffffff00065a7690 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff00065a7780
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   16* local stream ffffff0006188960 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff0006188b40
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   17* local stream ffffff012a0f8d20 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a0f8e10
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   18* local stream ffffff012a2eda50 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a2edb40
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   19* local stream ffffff012a2ed000 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a2ed0f0
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   20* local stream ffffff012a0f8000 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a163c30
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   21* local stream ffffff012a0e2b40 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a0e2c30
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   22* local stream ffffff012a6294b0 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a6295a0
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   23* local stream ffffff012a741780 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a741870
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   24* local stream ffffff012a62a960 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a62aa50
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   25* local stream ffffff012a7612d0 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a62a690
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   26* local stream ffffff012a761780 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a761690
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   27* local stream ffffff012a865960 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a875960
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   28* local stream ffffff012aa7a0f0 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012aa7b4b0
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   29* local stream ffffff012a8653c0 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a8654b0
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   30* local stream ffffff012ac3e690 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012ac3e780
>>>>>>> root     Xorg        1434   31* local stream ffffff012aa7a960 <->
>>>>>>> ffffff012a865e10
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of this looks good.  I can't see why consolekit doesn't show that
>>>>>> the session is active.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As root, while in X, run /usr/local/libexec/ck-collect-session-info, and
>>>>>> post the output.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, as root (sudo su -), while being in the offending X session, I got this:
>>>>>
>>>>> ** (ck-collect-session-info:1942): WARNING **: Invalid UID
>>>>
>>>> Try:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/libexec/ck-collect-session-info --uid 1001 --pid
>>>> PID_OF_GNOME-SESSION
>>>>
>>>> Where PID_OF_GNOME-SESSION is the PID of the running gnome-session process.
>>>
>>> $ ps ax | grep gnome-session
>>> 1436  v0  I      0:00.00 ck-launch-session gnome-session
>>> 1438  v0  I      0:00.20 gnome-session
>>> 1441  v0  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
>>> 2110   0  S+     0:00.00 grep gnome-session
>>>
>>> $ /usr/local/libexec/ck-collect-session-info --uid 1001 --pid 1438
>>> ** (ck-collect-session-info:2111): WARNING **: kvm_getenvv failed:
>>> cannot open /proc/1438/mem
>>> unix-user = 1001
>>> display-device = ttyv0
>>> is-local = true
>>
>> Is procfs mounted?
> 
> Hey!
> That did it!
> 
> Thank you very much. Just two more questions:
> 
> 1 - I don't remember having procfs mounted by default previously. Is
> this something that has changed recently?

No.  It's been a requirement for the past few GNOME releases.

> 2 - Is a requirement to have procfs(5) mounted to run GNOME? I thought
> procfs(5) was marked as deprecated in FreeBSD (or at least it
> shouldn't be used if other options are available). Am I right?

It is documented in the FAQ as being required for GNOME.  It has not
been fully purged at this point.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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