Huge Gnome startup delay

[Chua Wen Kiat]

I've encountered GNOME startup delays once in a while too... i suspect
it could be most likely when my internet/network is having problems
(slow or not connected)

What I did was to go to Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal then 
$ killall nautilus
This will refresh the desktop immediately...

Another thing I suspect is a Ubuntu Update Manager issues, try disable
auto check for updates in synaptic. After disabling it, i din get the
startup delays any more



On 7/13/05, William Chapman <jeddahbill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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