yesterday's hoary updates: gnome problems

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:21 +0000, Vic Ayres wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:37 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:33 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > Since yesterday's hoary updates gnome on my computer has become slower
> > > at booting and 
> > 
> > Apologies for incomplete message. As I was saying, gnome is now slower
> > when starting up, and the menus are also less responsive and take longer
> > to load when i click on them. The only possible relevant package that I
> > saw changed was the replacement of "fam": could this have caused my
> > problem? has anyone else seen it? In any case, does anyone know how I
> > might go about solving it, if there is a quick fix?
> > 
> > Thanks very much, Matt
> > 
> Yes, I also see this. I notice also that opening Nautilus (via Computer
> - Home) takes around 15 seconds with a further 20 seconds before the
> icons appear. Previously, this was nearly instantaneous. But, if I use
> Computer - Disks, it takes about 5 seconds.
> 
> Finally, if I launch it from a terminal I get
> failed to find gam_server
> failed to exec (null)
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-vic-
> failed to find gam_server
> failed to exec (null)
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-vic-
> (But it opens eventually anyway).
> 
> -- 
> Vic Ayres
> 
> 

It was solved in my case when I installed gamin
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