problem with intermittent slow login, sudo and kdesu

[BIll Taylor]

I'm not very knowledgeable of Ubuntu or linux in general but something
like this used to occur with WindozzXp. It occurred when my path setup
included directories which no longer existed.

Bill

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 03:17 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> In the past week I have encountered an odd problem when my password is required on kubuntu 7.10.
> 
> About 20% of the time I login, the system appears to hang for 20-30 seconds after I enter my password and before loading the window manager.  At other times, the window manager starts loading as soon as I hit the return key after entering my password.
> 
> Similarly, when I run an application using sudo (either from the CL or a gui) sometimes (maybe 50%?) the system waits 20-30 seconds before launching the app.  When it happens w/ sudo, it is unrelated to the times that the slow login occurs.  There's no obvious trace of a problem in the system log.
> 
> When this happens it's as if there is some process that is using all of CPU resources, but I can't find anything with a process monitor and the hard disk doesn't spin incessantly.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this behavior?  Have you identified a fix?
> 
> Paul
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