Tracking down a login performance problem

["Larry W. Virden" <lvirden cas org>]

Today I have been looking into a peculiar problem one user (out of
over 300) is having while logging into GNOME.

Platform: SPARC Solaris 8, Sun's GNOME

For some reason, during the process starting the gnome-session,
things sit for 5-10 minutes.  There are only two shell
scripts in the session; neither of which have any sleeps
in them.

We see the processes in the first script start.  Then
comes a 5 - 10 minute wait, and the next applications
start, and then the window manager and gnome-panel processes
start.
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