Re: Gnome is very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Telsa Gwynne" <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>
To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 03:46
Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow


> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:09:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Hoyt Bailey
wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think strace is going to help, but here are some things you
can
> > > try:
> > > 1) ssh localhost uptime
> > > This will either prompt you for a password or complain that it can't
> > > connect to a sshd. In either case, the response should be very quick -
> > > if it takes 30 seconds or so the the problem is with the network.
> >
> > Issued 'ssh localhost uptime' as me.  From terminal in KDE & gnome.
> > ssh: Connect to localhost port 22.  Connection refused
> > Issued 'ssh localhost uptime' as su (root).
> > ssh: Connect to localhost port 22.  Connection refused
> > In all cases response was instant.  Refusal  could be due to High
Security
> > setting.
>
> Sounds more like you don't have sshd running. "ps aux | grep sshd"
> will tell you if you have it running or not: if the only line
> that comes back is the grep, then it's not running. You're looking
> for something like this instead:
>
> $ ps aux | grep sshd
> root      2668  0.0  0.1  4940  620 ?        S    Jan20   0:11
/usr/sbin/sshd
> hobbit   12821  0.0  0.1  5188  560 pts/8    S    09:36   0:00 grep sshd
>
> (ssh is the client; sshd is the daemon which means it will accept
> ssh connections)
>
> > > 3) uptime
> >
> > Only results are from top.
>
> You can just type "uptime", incidentally.
>
> > I could not locate .gnomere-errors. .xsession-errors I intended to
attach,
> > however I was unable to transfer to either floppy or to a CD.  There
were
> > two warnings listed both repeated a number of times.  As follows:
> > >From (gnome terminal: 3751):
> > Warning **: No handler for control sewujence 'device-control-string'
defined
> > (this was repeater a number of times)>20
> > Warning **: Attempt to set invalid NRC map I(repeated 2 times)
> > Warning **:[invalid UTYF-8] invalid NRC map I (1 time)
> > Warning **: Attempt to set invalid  NRC map I (1 time)
> > I dont know what happened to k3b it worked previously.
>
> Many of the Gnome and Gtk programs are very chatty: they will
> record a lot of information. As a general rule, warnings are
> not important unless you're a hacker trying to tidy things up.
> Errors are more important, and "critical" tends to mean "can't
> even run".
>
Thanks you are very informative I'll check when I can.
Hoyt