[Solved] delay starting gdm3 and Cinnamon

mouseman · 2014-04-11 13:56:20

My system boots in 8 seconds but when it gets to the graphical part, it takes ages to load. Something must be wrong and I'm hoping someone can help me figure it out.

Text Boot:8 seconds
Gdm3: 19 seconds
After login: 22 seconds.
Total: 49 seconds.

$ sudo systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 3.254s (kernel) + 4.922s (userspace) = 8.176s

systemd-analyze blame
http://hastebin.com/wuxojivoci.tex

systemd-analyze critical-chain
http://hastebin.com/gisalehivo.tex

journalctl -b
http://hastebin.com/hulinahayo.vhdl

I guess systemd-analyze just shows everything is fine and dandy, the journalctl shows another 8 seconds but I can't seem to find much about the parts that delay the startup, what happened to the other 33 seconds?

I'm on a i7 2600k, 16GB 1600mhz, Samsung 830 SSD (discard enabled, ran fstrim too), Nvidia GTX580 with latest drivers. System is fully up2date, official repo's only.

In Cinnamon startup, I unchecked everything.

I found a few other threads but none with a resolution or a reason. I'm not sure if they were the same thing though. Hope someone can help me, appreciate it!

I am on LightDM right now and that's slightly quicker than Gdm but nothing shocking.

Thanks.

Last edited by mouseman (2014-04-11 18:52:37)

clfarron4 · 2014-04-11 16:29:55

I've always had issues running GDM3 with Cinnamon because cluuter/mutter would collectively spam my logs to hell
How long is it with LightDM?

mouseman · 2014-04-11 16:55:06

LightDM takes 9 seconds off the phase that goes from text to graphical, after I hit enter on login its still 20 seconds before the desktop is being displayed.

After that everything is fine, its just that something bothers Cinnamon starting up I think but I can't find what it is.

I suspect some of the waiting is nvidia drivers initializing, I played with EDID settings off and specifying modes in the hopes that it would speed things up but it doesn't (or Im not doing the right thing which I admit is likely ).

jaylittle · 2014-04-11 18:47:19

No cinnamon is bugged currently. We've had a bug open for almost a month on the issue.

mouseman · 2014-04-11 18:52:21

Thanks for the link.

I've bookmarked that to keep an eye on it.

I'll mark this as solved although I think without the 10 seconds from the bug its still too slow but there's no way to know until that is solved.

jaylittle · 2014-04-11 19:53:08

The time varies for people. On my system it takes around 30 second for cinnamon to fully start. It's quite annoying.

clfarron4 · 2014-04-11 20:07:10

jaylittle wrote:

The time varies for people. On my system it takes around 30 second for cinnamon to fully start. It's quite annoying.

Where for me it takes less than 10 seconds XD

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#1 2014-04-11 13:56:20

[Solved] delay starting gdm3 and Cinnamon

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