Gnome startup awfully slow (7.3, gnome2.30)

[daniele p]

I also have a similar problem (slow start-up) with gnome 2.30. In my case gnome-panel stops for some time (30 secs ?) then outputs a message to the console and then everything is ready to accept input. I can't attach the output message now.

In my /etc/rc.conf I just added

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES" 

and then created '.xinitrc' in ~ with the following line

exec gnome-session

I start everything with 'startx'.

This way I can see error messages on the tty, where 'startx' has been launched. 

I can not say where debug messages are sent once you also enable gdm.

d

> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:14:18 -0400
> From: m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
> To: a at jenisch.at
> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Gnome startup awfully slow (7.3, gnome2.30)
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a at jenisch.at> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my system (FreeBSD 7.3 AMD64, system & kernel current as per today)
> > it takes awully long to start up gnome (2.30) - "awfully long" meaning
> > 2-3 minutes (this is on a Intel quadcore-CPU with 4GB RAM!)
> >
> > In my /etc/rc.conf I've got
> >
> > gnome_enable="YES"
> >
> > I've already ruled out the usual suspect being a missing/wrong entry
> > in /etc/hosts (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20); my
> > hostname ist resolvable including reverse-resolution, plus I've got
> > the entries in my /etc/hosts.
> >
> > Is there any way to speed up gnome startup - or at least a pointer as
> > to where I can start looking for the cause of the problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any clue,
> > -ewald
> >
> 
> 
> One possibility may be that X system is trying to auto-detect your hardware
> which is taking time .
> Checking X configuration files and making them conforming to your hardware
> may eliminate this possibility .
> 
> Thank you very much .
> 
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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