[Bug 1069183] [NEW] LightDM KDE Greeter loads the desktop half a minute after login

[Elias Kouskoumvekakis]

Public bug reported:

I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation.

After I input my password and press enter instead of instantly loading
the desktop, I must wait almost half a minute before the KDE icons
appear and then the desktop loads normally. Log-in used to take just 2-3
seconds while showing the KDE icons.

Here's my lightdm.log:
http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm.log

You can see that it takes about 25 seconds for the greeter to start loading my desktop
...
[+9.24s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for lupo
[+9.25s] DEBUG: Started session 1711 with service 'lightdm', username 'lupo'
[+9.25s] DEBUG: Session 1711 got 1 message(s) from PAM
[+9.25s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
[+9.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
[+9.28s] DEBUG: Session 1711 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+9.28s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user lupo: Success
[+9.30s] DEBUG: User lupo authorized
[+35.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests default session
[+35.28s] DEBUG: Using session kde-plasma
[+35.28s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
[+35.28s] DEBUG: Session 1318: Sending SIGTERM
[+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+35.34s] DEBUG: Session 1318 exited with return value 0
[+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
...

Also lightdm writes the file x-0-greeter.log which might contain info about the problem:
http://lupo.teamdac.com/x-0-greeter.log

This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays and no x-0-greeter.log file is generated at all. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm_autologin.log

** Affects: lightdm
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: lightdm-kde (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

- I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation.
+ I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation's SSD.
  
  After I input my password and press enter instead of instantly loading
  the desktop, I must wait almost half a minute before the KDE icons
  appear and then the desktop loads normally. Log-in used to take just 2-3
  seconds while showing the KDE icons.
  
  Here's my lightdm.log:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm.log
  
  You can see that it takes about 25 seconds for the greeter to start loading my desktop
  ...
  [+9.24s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for lupo
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Started session 1711 with service 'lightdm', username 'lupo'
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Session 1711 got 1 message(s) from PAM
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Session 1711 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user lupo: Success
  [+9.30s] DEBUG: User lupo authorized
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests default session
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Using session kde-plasma
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Session 1318: Sending SIGTERM
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Session 1318 exited with return value 0
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
  ...
  
  Also lightdm writes the file x-0-greeter.log which might contain info about the problem:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/x-0-greeter.log
  
  This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm_autologin.log

** Description changed:

  I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation's SSD.
  
  After I input my password and press enter instead of instantly loading
  the desktop, I must wait almost half a minute before the KDE icons
  appear and then the desktop loads normally. Log-in used to take just 2-3
  seconds while showing the KDE icons.
  
  Here's my lightdm.log:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm.log
  
  You can see that it takes about 25 seconds for the greeter to start loading my desktop
  ...
  [+9.24s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for lupo
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Started session 1711 with service 'lightdm', username 'lupo'
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Session 1711 got 1 message(s) from PAM
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Session 1711 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user lupo: Success
  [+9.30s] DEBUG: User lupo authorized
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests default session
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Using session kde-plasma
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Session 1318: Sending SIGTERM
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Session 1318 exited with return value 0
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
  ...
  
  Also lightdm writes the file x-0-greeter.log which might contain info about the problem:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/x-0-greeter.log
  
- This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
+ IMPORTANT: This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm_autologin.log

** Description changed:

- I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation's SSD.
+ I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.10 on my workstation.
  
  After I input my password and press enter instead of instantly loading
  the desktop, I must wait almost half a minute before the KDE icons
  appear and then the desktop loads normally. Log-in used to take just 2-3
  seconds while showing the KDE icons.
  
  Here's my lightdm.log:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm.log
  
  You can see that it takes about 25 seconds for the greeter to start loading my desktop
  ...
  [+9.24s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for lupo
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Started session 1711 with service 'lightdm', username 'lupo'
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Session 1711 got 1 message(s) from PAM
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Prompt greeter with 1 message(s)
  [+9.25s] DEBUG: Continue authentication
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Session 1711 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
  [+9.28s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user lupo: Success
  [+9.30s] DEBUG: User lupo authorized
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Greeter requests default session
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Using session kde-plasma
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
  [+35.28s] DEBUG: Session 1318: Sending SIGTERM
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Session 1318 exited with return value 0
  [+35.34s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
  ...
  
  Also lightdm writes the file x-0-greeter.log which might contain info about the problem:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/x-0-greeter.log
  
- IMPORTANT: This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
+ This bug doesn't happen if I enable autologin from the System Settings->Login Screen->General tab. In this case autologin is very fast without any delays and no x-0-greeter.log file is generated at all. Here's my lightdm.log when autologin is enabled:
  http://lupo.teamdac.com/lightdm_autologin.log

** Summary changed:

- Desktop loads half a minute after login in the LightDM KDE Greeter
+ LightDM KDE Greeter loads the desktop half a minute after login

** Also affects: lightdm-kde (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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