F12: "start" menu takes a very long time to load

[Rex Dieter]

Mark Bidewell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 16 November 2009 12:47:43 Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>>> I just installed F12 on a fresh computer, and for the most part things
>>> seem to be working well. One thing I'm seeing in KDE, though -- which
>>> is new to me -- is that whenever I click on the Start menu (the Fedora
>>> logo in the bottom right), my whole desktop freezes for several
>>> seconds and then the menu comes up. I can tell it's freezing because,
>>> for example, if I have a "yum update" running in a konsole at the same
>>> time, its output stops being updated until the menu comes up.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing this? I'm pretty sure this is new for me since
>>> the betas ...
>>>
>>> MEF
>>>
>> Hi,
>> it's NVidia bug, lot of people complaints about it but we can't do anything as
>> it's proprietary driver :-(
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620
>>
>> There are two solution - if you don't rely on 3D - use nouveau driver instead
>> closed one. 2D speed is nice, better than closed but no 3D yet.
>> If you need 3D and/or closed driver (VPDAU is nice too) try XOrg but without
>> xserver-1.7.1-window-pictures.patch. There's scratch build in Koji (see
>> comment #13).
>>
>> Jaroslav
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> 
> Another mitigation is to use the traditional rather than the Kickoff
> menu.  I am seeing this with nouveau as well, but I installed from the
> nvidia installer, and I believe it may have borked by X.  Will try
> again with F12 final.

Be warned, there are other bad side-effects to the current nvidia 
drivers than just the pausing of kickoff.  We've received reports of 
other mysterious pauses, failures as well.

See also,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#NVIDIA-xorg-broken

-- Rex