f12 sometimes is slow to start

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Sun Apr 18 07:04:14 UTC 2010


2010/4/16 Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> I have been using the f12 (686) on a dell latitude e6500 laptop. This
> is my corporate workstation and so far it's working really nice.
> Everything works out of the box and configuring it to work with its
> docking station was very easy (much easier than expected). Great work!
> Thanks.
>
> There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop
> it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should
> without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and
> login there, but if I try to login graphically it will take me like 2
> to 3 minutes to complete the process. I cannot see anything in the log
> files.
>
> Like I said, it does not happen all the time nor it is really
> annoying, but I would like to find out why this is happening. In
> /var/log/messages I do not get any errors. How can I debug the gnome
> login process?
> --
> Groeten,
> Natxo Asenjo

I had a similar problem until recently with F12 (and previously F11).
But in my case it took EVERY TIME additional 40 seconds before I could
login. This system boots in runlevel 3 and I do startx when I need
GUI. So, actually this delay occurred just after all daemons have been
started and during login process. Playing around with services I've
found it was preload installed a while ago who caused a lot of disk IO
usage. Disabling it resulted in a faster boot process (with no delay
at the end of it) and less memory usage on a booted system. But now X
takes about two times slower than before...

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