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Dennis Beekman

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From: Klippenweg 2B 7622EV Borne

Registered: 2010-06-21

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Gnome very slow to login

All works fine, except for the first login fter a freshboot/reboot of the system... the second login seems to be fine.
When i login it gives me an empty screen and my conky scripts shows aswell, but it takes the computer 10 to 20 seconds to load the Desktop... if i then logout and log back in it loads in 1 to 3 seconds flat.

I found 2 previous posts around this subject:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=98901
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107122

but none of the options mentioned in the links help to fix my problem, and i think i might have  a diffirent problem.

- I removed the modules and services from rc.conf one by one with a reboot each time.
- I disabled all startup applications.
- I Tried starting gnome with startx from the cli (booted init3).
- I tried disabling the FGLRX driver and removing its modules and services from rc.conf.
- I disabled CPUFREQ alowing my computer to boot and login at 100% cpu power.
- I checked my bios for a mention of a floppy drive, there wasn't any.
- Disabled the floppy module with !floppy
- I even tried removing the gnome program that is suppost to crash during login as decribed in in the above url.
- Checked if the hostname was set correctly as some Arch community members tell
me it might be a DNS issue.

Nothing works, the login remains slow as hell the first time after a powerdown or powercycle.
Does anyone have any suggestions ? should i file a bug report about this ?

edit:
I tried using the slim login mananger instead of GDM but it made no diffirence.

edit:
I tried bootchart but it doesn't make me any the wiser as to what is going on during the login process, i removed it again.

edit
i created a bug report about this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645249

Last edited by Dennis Beekman (2011-03-19 19:16:38)

Dennis Beekman

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From: Klippenweg 2B 7622EV Borne

Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

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ngoonee

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

There's some apps which aren't in auto-start but auto-start anyway. Nautilus, of course. Gnome-panel, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-power etc.

Gnome is just pretty big, high startup times are to be expected. I cut about a minute of boot-to-usable by switching to awesome, simply by not having to start the above.

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Dennis Beekman

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From: Klippenweg 2B 7622EV Borne

Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

I have been looking in to openbox + pypanel & trayer  solution, it's in the works if gnome3 turns out to be no good.
However i really like gnome for it's clean look and rich feature set.

As for the login it should be about 4 secs from login to desktop... always.
I would really like to find a solution to the issue presented above.

Last edited by Dennis Beekman (2011-03-21 10:14:53)

mrunion

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

FWIW, after a system update 3-4 days ago, I have started experiencing the same problem with delayed login. If Gnome 3 doesn't work out, I'm bailing as well!

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nDray

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

Humm, i started having a similar problem just now, but just after installing gnome3!

GDM takes a few seconds to load (15/20 secs) and sometimes it doesn't find my username, i have to enter it as well as the password.
If I boot in runlevel 3 the first login also takes a very long time. What could be the problem?

sonay

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Registered: 2010-03-09

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115976

That may help, it helped me to boost KDE login on my netbook.

nDray

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Re: Gnome very slow to login

But this is not the problem. Everything is loaded, the disk isn't being accessed, neither is the cpu, if the leds are correctly wired.
Like I said, even when booting console only, I type the username, then the password, it immediately tells me the last login time, but then takes more than just a few seconds to show me the prompt.

EDIT: found the cause, more or less!
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23074

Last edited by nDray (2011-04-08 01:16:03)