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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:36:44 +0930
From:      Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: regression: session start time
Message-ID:  <1220843204.2581.39.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse>
In-Reply-To: <36911120@bs1.sp34.ru>
References:  <36911120@bs1.sp34.ru>

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On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 01:38 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> I'm not sure if it can be called "a session start time". But Gnome
> 2.20.3 starts (via gdm) without delay. Current gnome sessions start
> and show gnome panel window (at the senter of the screen) for several
> minutes. While this panel is on no desktop icons do appear and the
> session cat't be closed (ctrl-alt-bsp helps). Though menu, shortcuts
> work just fine. When time passes the gnome panel disappears and all
> desktop icons appear.
> 
> The most annoying is the fact that the session can't be closed at
> once.

Curious, I was experiencing similar delays with 2.20, but saw a
significant improvement after upgrading to 2.22.2. This machine doesn't
get restarted very often so I'm going from memory on this, but I believe
the only remaining symptom I see now is that the startup progress window
hangs around for a while. The delayed display of desktop items
definitely improved for me after the upgrade.

I haven't attempted to close a session during that phase of start-up, so
I can't comment on that. Have you attempted to run "gdm-stop" from a
command-line?

I have no idea what exactly resulted in the improved behaviour. I did
notice some "improvement" in the startup messages. Below are extracts
from pre- and post- upgrade message logs:

Jun  2 13:05:28 predator-ii kernel: Starting dbus.
Jun  2 13:05:28 predator-ii kernel: Starting system_tools_backends.
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii kernel: Removing stale Samba tdb files: 
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii kernel: .
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii last message repeated 7 times
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii kernel: done
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii kernel: Starting nmbd.
Jun  2 13:05:29 predator-ii kernel: Starting smbd.
Jun  2 13:05:30 predator-ii kernel: Starting winbindd.
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Starting local daemons:
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: .
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Starting lpd.
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Updating motd
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: .
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Mounting late file systems:
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: .
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Starting ntpd.
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Starting polkitd.
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: /etc/rc: WARNING: $polkitd_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
Jun  2 13:05:31 predator-ii kernel: Starting hald.
Jun  2 13:05:38 predator-ii kernel: Starting gdm.
Jun  2 13:05:38 predator-ii kernel: Starting avahi-daemon.
Jun  2 13:05:39 predator-ii kernel: Starting avahi-dnsconfd.
Jun  2 13:05:39 predator-ii kernel: Configuring syscons:

Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: Starting dbus.
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: Starting hald.
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: Configuring syscons:
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: keymap
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: font8x16
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: font8x14
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: font8x8
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: blanktime
Aug 28 17:37:55 predator-ii kernel: screensaver
Aug 28 17:37:56 predator-ii kernel: allscreens
Aug 28 17:37:56 predator-ii kernel: .
Aug 28 17:37:56 predator-ii kernel: Starting gdm.
Aug 28 17:37:56 predator-ii kernel: Starting bsdstats.
Aug 28 17:37:59 predator-ii kernel: Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org
Aug 28 17:38:00 predator-ii kernel: Starting avahi-daemon.
Aug 28 17:38:00 predator-ii kernel: Starting avahi-dnsconfd.


Wayne





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