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new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 235

XFCE4.6 sluggish after upgrade

Hello fellow Archers,

The recent gnome packages upgrade did something weird to my xfce 4.6 system;

For instance, opening gnome-system-monitor takes 15 seconds... or when I intend to mount a truecrypt container, the browsing pop-up window takes 10-15 seconds to open...otherwise the system seems fine, as far as I know. System doesn't lag when I open thunar.

I think it has something to do with the newest gtk2 engine?
I've tried to downgrade the gnome packages including gtk2 but dependency hell wouldn't allow me to do so.
Any tips?

Here's my pacman.log:

[2010-04-02 10:10] starting full system upgrade
[2010-04-02 10:13] removed devicekit-disks (009-5)
[2010-04-02 10:13] upgraded glib2 (2.22.5-1 -> 2.24.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:13] upgraded atk (1.28.0-1 -> 1.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:13] upgraded pango (1.26.2-1 -> 1.28.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:13] upgraded libcups (1.4.2-5 -> 1.4.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gtk2 (2.18.9-2 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libidl2 (0.8.13-1 -> 0.8.14-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded orbit2 (2.14.17-1 -> 2.14.18-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gconf (2.28.0-1 -> 2.28.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded chromium (5.0.342.8-2 -> 5.0.342.8-3)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.60-3 -> 2.02.61-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] installed udisks (1.0.0-2)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded e2fsprogs (1.41.10-1 -> 1.41.11-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-icon-theme (2.28.0-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-keyring (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] installed libgnome-keyring (2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded evince (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libsoup (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libsoup-gnome (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libgweather (2.28.0-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded evolution-data-server (2.28.3.1-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gtksourceview2 (2.8.2-1 -> 2.10.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] installed libffi (3.0.9-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded pygobject (2.20.0-1 -> 2.21.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded pygtk (2.16.0-2 -> 2.17.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded pygtksourceview2 (2.8.0-1 -> 2.10.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gedit (2.28.3-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libsigc++2.0 (2.2.4.2-1 -> 2.2.5-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded glibmm (2.22.1-1 -> 2.24.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libunique (1.1.6-1 -> 1.1.6-2)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-disk-utility (2.28.1-1 -> 2.30.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-doc-utils (0.18.1-1 -> 0.20.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-menus (2.28.0.1-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libwnck (2.28.0-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] installed libcanberra (0.23-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-vfs (2.24.2-2 -> 2.24.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gvfs (1.4.3-1 -> 1.6.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libbonobo (2.24.2-1 -> 2.24.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libgnome (2.28.0-2 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libart-lgpl (2.3.20-1 -> 2.3.21-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libgnomecanvas (2.26.0-1 -> 2.30.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libbonoboui (2.24.2-1 -> 2.24.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded librsvg (2.26.0-2 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-panel (2.28.0-2 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libgnomeui (2.24.2-1 -> 2.24.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-python (2.28.0-1 -> 2.28.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-python-desktop (2.28.0-3 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded libgtop (2.28.0-1 -> 2.28.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gtkmm (2.18.2-1 -> 2.20.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded gnome-system-monitor (2.28.0-1 -> 2.28.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:14] upgraded vte (0.22.5-1 -> 0.24.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded gnome-terminal (2.28.2-1 -> 2.30.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded libxklavier (4.0-1 -> 5.0-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.60-3 -> 2.02.61-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded mpg123 (1.10.1-1 -> 1.12.1-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded numlockx (1.1-4 -> 1.2-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] when you use a non-reparenting window manager
[2010-04-02 10:15] set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 in
[2010-04-02 10:15] /etc/profile.d/openjdk6.sh
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded openjdk6 (6.b17_1.7.1-1 -> 6.b17_1.7.3-1)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded xfce4-settings (4.6.4-1 -> 4.6.4-2)
[2010-04-02 10:15] upgraded xfce4-xkb-plugin (0.5.3.3-1 -> 0.5.3.3-2)
[2010-04-02 11:44] upgraded gnome-system-monitor (2.28.1-1 -> 2.28.0-1)

Thanks!

Last edited by new2arch (2010-04-03 11:51:10)

pshr

Member

Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: XFCE4.6 sluggish after upgrade

I dont run xfce but after the latest upgrade im experiencing a sluggish system and my pcmanfm is driving me nuts, i took a shot at downgrading gtk2 but stopped whn i realized the dep hell i would get my self into.

new2arch

Member

Registered: 2008-02-25

Posts: 235

Re: XFCE4.6 sluggish after upgrade

I dont run xfce but after the latest upgrade im experiencing a sluggish system and my pcmanfm is driving me nuts, i took a shot at downgrading gtk2 but stopped whn i realized the dep hell i would get my self into.

I've found out that the gtk2 upgrade isn't the culprit...
I've downgraded all gnome packages (there were plenty of them!) and that remedied the problem. System is snappy as ever.
But now I can't replace device-kits-disks with udisks. Hopefully nothing breaks, but as far as I can see, only gnome-disk-utility requires udisks.