gnome slow startup

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 19:24:40 UTC 2010


2010/8/6 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>:
> 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.
>

Good to know. Thank you very much for helping me out.

Cheers!

> Joe
>
> --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
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