Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:32:21 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome slow at start up Message-ID: <1bd550a00812061232h7f2c9d1eq5897a7a67cd26ae5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1228595094.47566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1bd550a00812061004o44b03addva88df517ed7f0375@mail.gmail.com> <op.ulq8igj89aq2h7@localhost> <1bd550a00812061206t325d55dar46ccba1b9e7f1ab8@mail.gmail.com> <1228595094.47566.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> 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 <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: >> > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:04:00 -0600, Fernando Apestegu=EDa >> > <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> 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 >
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