yesterday's hoary updates: gnome problems

[Matthew East]

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:57:01 +0100
> From: Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at canonical.com>
> Subject: Re: yesterday's hoary updates: gnome problems
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.

> Le mardi 09 novembre 2004  08:37 +0000, Matthew East a crit :
> > 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? 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Do you have any message in the ~/.xsession-error ? Could you try to
> "apt-get install gamin" ?

MANY THANKS, installing the gamin package has done the trick. Perhaps
this can be added to the hoary updates.

For completeness' sake, here is the output of ~/.xsession-error which I
get when starting gnome:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a
-w /var/log/wtmp - u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h ""
-l ":0" "matt"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/kallisto:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3827
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
failed to find gam_server
failed to exec (null)
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
manager.c/1099: mount_all: found 4 volumes, checking whether to mount
them...
manager.c/1104: mount_all: examining
udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_1 (block device /dev/hda1)
manager.c/1113: mount_all: volume.is_mounted is true, already mounted
manager.c/1104: mount_all: examining
udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_2 (block device /dev/hda2)
manager.c/1117: mount_all: volume is not mounted
manager.c/1126: mount_all: volume.fsusage is not 'filesystem', but ''
manager.c/1104: mount_all: examining
udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_3 (block device /dev/hda3)
manager.c/1113: mount_all: volume.is_mounted is true, already mounted
manager.c/1104: mount_all: examining
udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_5 (block device /dev/hda5)
manager.c/1117: mount_all: volume is not mounted
manager.c/1126: mount_all: volume.fsusage is not 'filesystem', but ''
failed to find gam_server
failed to exec (null)
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-matt-
failed to find gam_server
failed to exec (null)
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-matt-
failed to find gam_server
failed to exec (null)

{snip} (the latter error repeated many times)

Thanks again, Matt