Portupgrade of Dia et al results in long delay afterrunningstartx [Was ports/50604]

[Piero]

Hi,

W liście otrzymanym 05 Apr 2003 22:47:40 +0100 od Stacey Roberts
<stacey at vickiandstacey.com> :

> I'm in touch with Marcus on this.., Its really puzzling this.., I'd
> been using Gnome-1.x (now Gnome-1.4) on this box for hard on two years
> without problems.., but yesterday on release of the code freeze, I
> started portupgrading those apps that needed updating.
> 
> When I started updating Dia, I hit some problems with the fact that
> the new Dia (I'd also been using Dia for close to a year) was in fact,
> now a Gnome-2 port. I did whatever procedures Marcus recommended I
> perform to get that to work (including clearing out /tmp).
> 
> However, on attempting to log back into X, I there is this delay now
> (2.5 - 3 mins) where the black & white screen with the big X cursor
> just sits there.., doing nothing.., Then the Gnome startup GUI appears
> and its all as normal.

I had similar lags after upgrading XFree86 4.2 to 4.3, it was caused by
obsolete and outdated options and old style syntax in my XF86Config
file.

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 Piero
 piero at poprostu.pl