Huge Gnome startup delay

[Jeff Peeler]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:20:49 +0800, Chua Wen Kiat wrote:

> 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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>>
> 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
> 

Well, when gnome hangs before nautilus is started there isn't any way to
start a terminal. Perhaps the update manager is responsible, but what
would cause the sudden problem?

I encourage you to not top post. I moved your post from the top
to the bottom. Regardless of whether or not this practice should be done
elsewhere, top posting makes the least amount of since on a newsgroup.