Gnome freezes after session start

[Arjan Geven]

On 7/20/05, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> This can be caused by a corrupted .Xauthority or .ICEauthority in your
> homedir. It is safe to remove these files.

Thanks Andrew & Dennis, I'll take a look at removing cache and these
files in the evening.

However, I now found out that it does not freeze completely, but just
stalls for a few minutes. After a while, the screensaver comes up (4
minutes of no activity), and then later, there's a desktop sitting in
front of me. So, my guess is, there must be some boot process taking a
lot of time to start. But how can I find out which process that would
be? /var/log/messages doesn't tell me anything strange (I think).

Arjan .