From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 20:32:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53AAA1065675 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F588FC13 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so575723wfg.7 for ; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:32:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3Xrr/Fn+U/afRjeRQ8XJ7vtuwKy/UAomLDwmh+iaV+0=; b=tKJOsGuMWRWpOV72MpjKtOn75sR4zPAYDpH35x0OfoIvbE7eSfXfSP5WXnuYIDLqyN cRif4ztrjDeQ2y2FLgPTdXeJdOga1JFBKH33bmXIPjuwmnadM9LMa6g/vuuFaxmx/3Z+ UCugx9BPhrnnX2isyrxEbXJELsY3O00P5Nh+Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=C3alE651MD1LqrgLSAPRDUBRuELPAksyWXLyvzK6wUPES4KAD6GZHXK6NF3YFyD9wX yKYb+vSTOTXAbjB4rElBcFM5H/HCaWZoJp+kF4+qTF54ohK7KRBEHNhfuJS1XcQTVwsx OX40mwQpPFPrA9ZHXgJ8Fqv6omplGtkz1MoB0= Received: by 10.142.70.11 with SMTP id s11mr654205wfa.141.1228595541716; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:32:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.180.20 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:32:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1bd550a00812061232h7f2c9d1eq5897a7a67cd26ae5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:32:21 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" In-Reply-To: <1228595094.47566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1bd550a00812061004o44b03addva88df517ed7f0375@mail.gmail.com> <1bd550a00812061206t325d55dar46ccba1b9e7f1ab8@mail.gmail.com> <1228595094.47566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome slow at start up X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:32:22 -0000 On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wr= ote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 21:06 +0100, Fernando Apestegu=EDa wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:04:00 -0600, Fernando Apestegu=EDa >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 for AMD64. >> >> >> >> With this version, Gnome starts up very slowly. If I take a look at >> >> the session properties window, it seems nautilus takes a very long >> >> time trying to connect. However, after some time, it connects but the >> >> gnome-wm script is marked as Status UNKNOWN (That column of the >> >> treeview is not documented and I had to look at the code...). >> >> So it seems at the end, metacity is somehow stalled during start up. >> >> >> >> The --purge-delay=3D5000 as suggested here >> >> (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D445) causes other >> >> processes (gnome-at-visual and gnome-volume-manager) to be marked as >> >> not connected >> >> >> >> If I only set the --warn-delay=3D5000 I get gnome-wm (metacity in my >> >> case) to be marked as not responding. >> >> >> >> In the end, everything seems to work fine. However IMHO, it is a bit >> >> dirty to use these two options because they only mask the problem, bu= t >> >> it seems clear there are some faulting processes. >> >> >> >> Any ideas of what the problem is? >> > >> > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20 >> >> My bad, >> >> I should have pointed this out as reference: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-December/18803= 2.html >> >> Any more ideas? > > You can try ktrace'ing the slow-start processes to see if that yields > anything interesting. However, it would be more beneficial to have > these binaries compiled with debugging symbols, then use gdb to get > backtraces from them when they're starting up. I will try with ktrace or truss to see what happens. > > That said, the problem may be some bad configuration pieces. You might > try creating a new, clean account, and see if the problem shows up > there. Yes, it does. I created a new account on the system and I got the same result. I have a laptop running 7.0 Release -p5 and I only added the lines to /etc/hosts to speed up gnome. Nothing else was necessary. Cheers > > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc >