Kde Startup delays for 10 - 20 seconds (partially caused by nepomuk)

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 06.11.2012 20:22, schrieb Martin Kho:
> On Tuesday 06 November 2012 18:46:17 Martin wrote:
>> Am 06.11.2012 18:32, schrieb Martin Kho:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I doubt the delay is - only - caused by nepomuk/virtuoso in combination
>>> with nfs. In fc17 I also see a 10-20 second startup delay and am not
>>> using nfs. When trying to totally disable nepomuk the delay remains. I've
>>> no idea were it comes from, but it looks like is has also something to do
>>> with sound - the welcome sound is first thing that appears after the
>>> delay. May be
>>> udisks/udisks2 has something to do with it.
>>
>> I have the same problem. At first I thought NFS was the problem, but all
>> users (even root) has this delay about every second login.
>>
>> I disabled nepomuk (and akonadi is disabled as well) and the delay after
>> login was almost the same (may be not that often but that is very hard
>> to tell).
>>
>> At least on my system the problem was some settings in pulseaudio. it
>> was the script start-pulseaudio-x11 that caused the delay and here the
>> last call (/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-xsmp).
>>
> You just disbled/removed this module?

For testing purpose I disabled it (remove the whole script from
startup). Currently it is enabled - I live with the 15 seconds delay at
startup. Until now no one could tell me why this module causes such a
delay and I was to lazy to check it out myself.

Martin