Huge Gnome startup delay

[William Chapman]

On 7/12/05, Jeff Peeler <jpeeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:50:49 -0400, 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. 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...
> 
> Well, thanks for everybody's help. None of the posted solutions worked.
> However the problem actually just went away. Maybe it was network related
> and by my switching networks one "stuck" setting got corrected. I switch
> networks pretty regularly though.
> 
> 

Jeff,

FYI, I have the exact symptoms you described.  I have a small
home-network behind a broadband NAT router, with two Ubuntu systems. 
One always exhibits the behavior you describe; the other never does. 
I haven't spent any significant time analyzing the problem - as you
obviously have - but do have this to add:

(1) If I delay my logon for, say, one minute, the problem is avoided; or
(2) after the symptoms occur, logging off and back on avoids the problem.

Both my systems are fairly "stock," and new, but I do have all the
normally-commented-out repositories enabled.

Since I just joined this list today, I haven't read the previous,
related posts, but will do so, and track future ones.  (I do hope I
haven't broken protocol for correctly using this list.)

Bill Chapman