Huge Gnome startup delay

[Kirtis Bakalarczyk]

On 7/10/05, Jeff Peeler <jpeeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having about a 2 minute and 30 second startup delay every time gnome
> starts. Everything loads as expected until gnome-panel loads. It then just
> shows the two "bars" and then sits there and finally loads everything. It
> would be helpful if I knew where gnome stored its startup logs if it has
> any like X does. Also, on occasion I get the following four separate
> errors:
> 
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet".
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet"
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet".
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet".
> 
> If these errors appear, my bottom panel doesn't load anything above which
> is everything on it.
> 
> I'm not using the back ports repository on this machine. My laptop that
> is using it is running fine.
> 
> Here's what I have tried so far:
> 
> I tried a new .gnome2 directory with no success.
> 
> I tried logging in with another user and the same delay occurs.
> 
> I tried removing everything in the /tmp dir. I saw a Breezy post about
> this and thought it might be worth a shot.
> 
> I tried deleting everything in the .gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers
> directory. This fix actually worked temporarily and startup occurred a few
> times normally. Upon restart though the same delay returned.
> 
> I'm really not too sure where to go from here...

Have you been tinkering with your firewall lately?  I think i may have
caused this kind of problem by forgetting to allow all access to
loopback in the firewall.

KIRT
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