Huge Gnome startup delay

[Jeff Peeler]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:28:21 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:

> On Sunday 10 Jul 2005 13:50, Jeff Peeler 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.>
> 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.
> 
> You might try "ping localhost" in a console or terminal, just to make sure
> localhost is defined correctly.  Also, try pinging the hostname of your
> machine:
> 
>   ping `hostname`
>   ping `hostname -f`

Both ping tests were successful.