Re: Tracking down a login performance problem

[Paul Johnson <pauljohn ku edu>]

I've recently had this problem and tracked it back to a mistake I made 
in an earlier session. I was fiddling trying programs and in the menu I 
found this thing called Internet/video conferencing.  I tried that, 
nothing happened, and when I tried to log out, the system sat a long 
time and eventually I hit Alt-Ctl-Backspace.  Then at the next start, it 
 stopped at login, just in the way you describe.  It would sit a long time.

I use WindowMaker as my window manager and it would start fine, just the 
gnome splash would be stopped half way through. I could open terminals, 
run gnome programs like nautilus.

Sometimes I'd get repeated errors about "another instance of gnome-panel 
already running".

Eventually, I realized that there was some program failing and it was 
trying to re-start because it was in the Gnome session.  I did

ps aux

and saw a lot of programs running that I did not recognise, one of them 
was "gnomemeeting".  After doing a kill -9 on that process id, then the 
program was magically fixed.

pj


Larry W. Virden wrote:
> 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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