From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 13:30:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6FD16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao08.cox.net (lakemtao08.cox.net [68.1.17.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD97E43D3F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040311213031.FAOH10550.lakemtao08.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:30:31 -0500 To: Stacey Roberts References: <1078967224.565.18.camel@localhost> <20040311211702.GA338@crom.vickiandstacey.com> Message-ID: From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:29:25 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040311211702.GA338@crom.vickiandstacey.com> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:30:34 -0000 On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:17:03 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello Mezz.., > Thanks for the reply. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Messenger " > To: To stacey@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 >> 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. >> > >> >> > >> >Like I said, if there's anything else I can offer, then let me know. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >Stacey >> >> >> -- >> bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz. -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.