On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 03:07:13PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/1/18 2:46 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> My fedora 27 laptop used to login very quickly.
> Now it gets to a blank screen and pauses there
> for 1-2 minutes.
>
> I don't think the pause is due to anything in my
> start up scripts ~/.profile and ~/.kshrc. I checked
> this in two ways. First was commenting out large
> blocks of the executable code in the scripts and
> then rebooting. Eventually all the code was commented
> out and still the pause on login. The second way was
> by adding "got here" lines like:
>
> echo "got to $((n++)) $SECONDS $LINENO" >&2
>
> The $SECONDS showed no long pauses. So I
> conclude the pause is in system code setting
> up my login session.
>
> The bootchart command does a nice job of reporting
> every program that runs during boot, including the
> processes start and end times.
>
> Know any bootchart equivalent for login sessions?
>
You make no mention of what desktop you are using.
I'm using Mate.
One thing you should do is to simply create
a new user to see if a vanilla user shows
the same symptoms.
New user (also running Mate) does not
show the pause.
Jon
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