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)

I just checked and ps aux | grep ssh returns  'ssh-agent' but ps aux | grep
sshd returns grep sshd.  The daemon isnt running but the client is. For now
its more likely that I would need a secure connenction established from the
other end.  It is unlikely that I would be establishing a ssh connection for
some time.

> >
> > > > 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.

Regards;
Hoyt