Long delays in Gnome2 start up

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:17:03 +0000, Stacey Roberts 
<stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:

> Hello Mezz..,
>       Thanks for the reply.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>"
> To: To stacey at vickiandstacey.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar, 2004 19:53 GMT
> Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up
>
>> Try to create a new dummy user like tester to see if your GNOME will
>> startup faster. If so, then there are something wrong in one of in your
>> personal directory like ~/.gnome2, ~/.gconf and etc. You can remove 
>> these
>> directories on your normal user and let GNOME to startup fresh.
>>
>
> No need to, I already have a spare user on the box to use for this. As I 
> suspected, logging in with that other user results in a fast Gnome2 
> startup.

A spare user with no GNOME personal directories? Do you mean, it does 
login faster on the spare user?

Cheers,
Mezz

>> One more thing, make sure your hostname is working. X will startup very
>> slow if you don't have the correct hostname. IE: fix the /etc/hosts by 
>> add
>> your hostname in it point on 127.0.0.1.
>
> This is not a problem.
>
> What *has* become a problem that I've noticed as well, is the fact that 
> even attempting to log out of Gnome2 takes almost 5 minutes now too. 
> This is the time from clicking on "Actions", "Log Out".., desktop locks 
> up.., five minutes later, the confirmation dialogue box appears. 
> Clicking on "Okay", results in the log out then proceeding as per normal.
>
>>
>> BTW: reinstall apps aren't always a solution.
>
> One would think that, but at the end of the day, I'm inclined to 
> reinstall something that's broken, rather than work with something that 
> was "hacked back together". The fact that this machine was up and 
> running well after the reinstall of Gnome back in 2002.
>
> Thanks again for taking the time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stacey
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:07:05 +0000, Stacey Roberts
>> <stacey at vickiandstacey.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >     I've just had a strangely familiar problem re-occur with me
>> >tonight.
>> >
>> >For some reason, when I try to start gnome2 (with startx) there is a
>> >very long delay before the splash thingy appears - almost 4 minutes. I
>> >mentioned familiar for the simple reason that this exact problem
>> >happened to me a couple of years ago, whilst I was running Gnome-1.2 (I
>> >think).
>> >
>> >The short story of the eventual fix for me then was to reinstall Gnome.
>> >I am now wondering if anyone is able to help me with this problem now
>> >appearing now that I'm running Gnome-2.4.2.
>> >
>> >I'll include what details I think are relevant here, but if there's any
>> >information I can add, please let me know.
>> >
>> <snip>
>> >
>> >Like I said, if there's anything else I can offer, then let me know.
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >
>> >Stacey
>>
>>
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