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rubix

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Registered: 2009-08-18

Posts: 15

Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

I recently came across a problem. Probably about 5 months ago I started using arch. While getting everything setup the way I like it, I managed to make it so that on startup it seems that the desktop is refreshing every ~3 seconds or so, for about 5-10 times. After its done refreshing(?) everything loads normally(conky, that xfce-tips thing that I havent disabled yet )

After that happened I got busy, started using windows etc...So I don't really remember what I did to cause the problem.

I think that it happened after I added my second hdd to /etc/fstab. I'm not sure if this is when it happened, and I dont really know if that could even cause the problem(I kind of recall reading something on where it can hang/refresh or something while trying to mount it).

could this cause the problem? Or does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this?

heres my /etc/fstab just incase it might help someone diagnose the problem(I really remember thinking that it happened after i added /dev/sdb1 to it, but im not sure).

/dev/sda1 /media/disk ntfs umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk_sdb ntfs umask=0222 0 0
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=09f44a5e-7a2b-4230-9fb6-f4b7a3903622 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=98b0b3b6-1a79-4add-a5fc-caeeb5c3b48f swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=ac239889-571d-46d8-b9ff-8dcb3794abf5 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=ba5d1048-a0a9-4d7e-bbd8-18b09e55e9b3 /var ext3 defaults 0 1

also, after all of the refreshing, I can access files on /dev/sdb1 and play my music from there etc.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by rubix (2011-06-27 20:34:35)

mjheagle8

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From: /home/mjheagle8

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 186

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

sounds like a graphics card problem. i have that with my nvidia card. do you have an nvidia card?

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cwjiof

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From: Taichung, TW

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 131

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

If you have an intel graphics, enable the Kernel mode setting (KMS) . It will help you.

See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … _.28KMS.29

rubix

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Registered: 2009-08-18

Posts: 15

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

mjheagle8, Yes, I have a nvida geforce 9600gt. Do you mean that the same thing is happening to you, or that you fixed it?

cwjiof, Nope, nVidia.

I use xfce by the way.

Also, I commented out the line in /etc/fstab I thought might've been causing the problem then rebooted, and got the same issue. So your guess sounds right to me mjheagle8. Any idea what is causing it?

I can't remember anything I might've done back then.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

I was also getting a flash right before I got fully logged into Openbox with a 9600GT. It was nowhere near as pronounced as what you're describing; It was just a short flash or two. It started around three or four weeks ago and stopped sometime within the last week. It may have something to do with the xorg-server upgrade.

guzz46

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 190

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

i had a similar problem running xfce but only the panel would flash a few times after booting, found a solution on the forums by deleting everything in ~/.cache/sessions then rebooting

rubix

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Registered: 2009-08-18

Posts: 15

Re: Desktop flashes a couple times before loading fully on login

It Worked! Just deleted everything in ~/.cache/sessions, rebooted, and presto

Thanks guzz46, and everyone else.

Last edited by rubix (2009-08-19 05:20:00)