From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 14:31:22 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 7FD7616A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D9B43D49 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040311223121.FLYP21704.lakemtao05.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:31:21 -0500 To: Stacey Roberts References: <1078967224.565.18.camel@localhost> <20040311211702.GA338@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040311213945.GB338@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <20040311222643.GC338@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 16:30:14 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20040311222643.GC338@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 22:31:22 -0000 On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:26:43 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hi Mezz., > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Messenger " > To: To Stacey Roberts > Date: Thu, 11 Mar, 2004 22:05 GMT > Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up > >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:39:45 +0000, Stacey Roberts >> wrote: >> >> >Hi Mezz., >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "Jeremy Messenger " >> >To: To Stacey Roberts >> >Date: Thu, 11 Mar, 2004 21:29 GMT >> >Subject: Re: Long delays in Gnome2 start up >> > >> >>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? >> > >> >Yes. I often create two users that I can use, but only use one. I've >> >never had the need to use any other than my primary user, so when this >> >problem started last night I figured on checking to see if it happens >> >for everyone (including root). >> > >> >As things turned out, both root and the other (spare) user can log in >> >fine. >> > >> >Thought I should also mention that for my primary user (the account for >> >whom the delays occur), I'd already tried the following: - >> > >> >1] rm -rf .g* >> >2] rm -rf .esd* >> >3] Ran startx >> >4] Gnome2 starts fine >> >5] Do nothing >> >6] Log off >> >7] Run startx again >> >8] Long delay in Gnome2 startup >> > >> >I've done that procedure about four times now, just to make sure I >> >wasn't going crazy. >> >> Umm, if it works fine on root and other users then it must be problem >> somewhere in your primary user. So, if you reinstall GNOME and you might >> still have the same problem. :-) Can you try do the full one? Like this: >> >> rm -rf .ICE* .Trash .Xauth* .gconf* .gnome* .gtk* .esd* .fonts.cache-1 >> .meta* .nau* .recent* .thumb* .xscreen* > > Oh.., I didn't try removing those.., > >> >> Also, there have few stuff in the /var/tmp/ like this: >> >> gconfd-${user} mapping-${user} orbit-${user} >> >> So, change from ${user} to your primary user then try to remove them. I >> don't know if it will help, but I think it's a worth shot. Also, be sure >> to check in the top or ps to make sure one of GNOME's app exit correct >> before you try to do the startx again. This is my last suggest what I >> can >> think of, before you want to reinstall GNOME. > > Okay.., check me on this please.., just so I know that I follow: - > > Here's how I see your instructions set: > > a] Log off Gnome2 > b] run top / ps to verify that all Gnome2 apps have exited cleanly (kill > off any lingering Gnome2 apps still appearing in top / ps) > c] Run rm -rf for .ICE*, .Trash, .Xauth*, .gconf*, .gnome*, .gtk*, > .esd*, .fonts.cache-1, .meta*, .nau*, .recent*, .thumb*, & .xscree* > d] Run rm -rf for any instances for gconfd-stacey, mapping-stacey & > orbit-stacey in /var/tmp > e] Run startx > > Let me know if I've got that procedure correct, please. Yeah, it looks fine. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks again. > > Regards, > > Stacey > >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> >> >Thanks for the reply, by the way. >> > >> >Regards, >> > >> >Stacey >> > >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz. -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.