Re: gnome starts up slow - session problems

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

This is now fixed in CVS.

williweber@t-online.de (Sebastian Weber) writes:

> Hello you!
> 
> Lately I got serious problems with gnome. I´m logging into my machine via
> gdm. Then gnome-session is called in .xinitrc. In the past everything
> worked fine: The panel started, the correct background is set and so on.
> But now it takes a long time for the panel to startup. Very often the
> panel also forgets it´s applets which I started last time, I only get
> standard buttons. At the same time gmc shows up with a window and not only
> with the icons on my desktop.
> 
> There have to be some problems with the session-manager. Because on thing
> is very interesting: If I start any gnome-compilant and session-aware
> program out of the console it works, but I always get some kind of this
> output at startup:
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected.
> 
> Whats even more weird is that I cannot startup the "Startup
> Programs"-capplet within the Control Center, whenever I click on it, I get
> the following output on stderr:
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication rejected.
> 
> ** CRITICAL **: file gsm-protocol.c: line 602 (gsm_protocol_new):
> assertion `GNOME_CLIENT_CONNECTED (gnome_client)' failed.
> 
> ** WARNING **: Could not connect to gnome-session.
> 
> My system is:
> 
> Linux Kernel 2.2.6 / glibc 2.0.7
> gtk+/glib 1.2.2
> gnome-libs 1.0.8
> gnome-core 1.0.5
> gdm 1.0.0
> 
> By the way I alreay tried to delete ever gnome stuff (rm -r ~/.gnome*).
> This solved this problem for other users - but not for me.
> 
> Maybe somebody has some advice.
> 
> 
> Thanks in adavance,
> 
> Sebastian Weber
> 
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