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Subject:    Re: nonmetacity: gnome-2.8 startup "sticks" for 60 seconds on
From:       Andrei Badea <andrei.badea () movzx ! net>
Date:       2004-10-26 17:39:24
Message-ID: 417E8BCC.2090608 () movzx ! net
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Paul Johnson wrote:

> I don't use metacity because it won't let me set separate images for 
> separate workspaces. I use Window Maker.  In .Xclients, I have
> 
> export WINDOW_MANAGER=wmaker
> exec gnome-session
> 
> Since I installed gnome 2.8, I find that the gnome startup stalls for a 
> long time after the spash screen starts and it shows 1 icon and says it 
> is loading the window manager.   Window Maker starts up and I can use 
> its features and menus, but the gnome splash stays "stuck" there for 
> about 60 seconds.  Then the panel pops up and gnome works OK.

This is just a shot in the dark, but try running gnome-session with a 
--purge-delay parameter, such as

exec gnome-session --purge-delay 3000

> I've monitored /var/log/messages when this is going on, and the only 
> hint I see is this gconfd output.  Do you know what it means?
> 
> Oct 26 08:52:23 pols111 gconfd (pauljohn-3325): starting (version 
> 2.8.1), pid 3325 user 'pauljohn'
> Oct 26 08:52:23 pols111 gconfd (pauljohn-3325): Resolved address 
> "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only 
> configuration source at position 0
> Oct 26 08:52:23 pols111 gconfd (pauljohn-3325): Resolved address 
> "xml:readwrite:/home/pauljohn/.gconf" to a writable configuration source 
> at position 1
> Oct 26 08:52:23 pols111 gconfd (pauljohn-3325): Resolved address 
> "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only 
> configuration source at position 2

I got these messages too, have no clue what they mean.

Andrei

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