Huge Gnome startup delay

[Jeff Peeler]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:37:44 -0400, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote:

> 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


Well actually I have been but it started before then. Currently anyway I
don't have anything going on firewall wise. My current rule list is:

$ sudo iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Any other suggestions?