long delays on kde startup (intermittent)

[Brad Hubbard]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> To: kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, 16 October, 2015 2:43:55 AM
> Subject: Re: long delays on kde startup (intermittent)
> 
> 
> 
> Am 15.10.2015 um 18:12 schrieb Rex Dieter:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> >
> >> Recently (last month?) I'm seeing intermittently, long delays on kde
> >> startup.  The startup draws a horizontal bar, and it hangs maybe 75% of
> >> the way for a Long time (30 sec)?
> >>
> >> This is on a very fast machine that usually starts kde in a few seconds.
> >> Any hints at troubleshooting?
> >
> > There were some issues introduced in kf5-5.14.x (kf5-kservice mostly) that
> > should be fixed in kf5-5.15 (currently in updates-testing).
> >
> > See if those updates help your case
> 
> at least not here
> 
> * login takes long
> * still half of the desktop freezes after sftp-filetransfers
> 
> on a machine where over years the progress display at login was disabled
> because it was so fast that the was nothing to display
> 
> currently the desktop appears *long* after autostarts are done (Firefox,
> Kopete triggering kwallet, ssh-askpass) because when the desktop appears
> firefox asks for the master password which normally happens a dozenns of
> seconds after it was started

Out of interest, if you get a console before login and run "systemctl stop
firewalld" before logging in does it make a difference. It did for me but I'm
still working on the "why" bit.

Cheers,
Brad