SLOW boot and LONG wait when logging out to switch users.

[NoOp]

On 11/02/2007 12:54 PM, damian wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 11/02/2007 08:15 AM, damian wrote:
>>   
>>> damian wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I have 2 ubuntu machines. One of them is taking a long long time to get 
>>>> from the gui screen starting up (cream background and spinning cursor) 
>>>> and the login screen coming up. This used to take about a second, but is 
>>>> not a couple of minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to look behind the gui to see what's taking so long?
>>>>
>>>> Both machines have this same problem when logging out to switch users. 
>>>> The background goes blank and the spinning cursor comes up, then it 
>>>> seems to take forever before anyone can log in again.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas or advice?
>>>>
>>>> Both machines have had MythBuntu added to them if that points to 
>>>> anything. I don't see why it should, but trying to figure this out.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Damian
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> I don't expect anyone to be able to know why the logging in and out is 
>>> so slow from the information I've given, but surely there's a way to 
>>> find out?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Damian
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Have you checked the usual: dmesg, /var/logs etc?
>>   
> I'm afraid 'the usual' is abstract and unusual to me. I'm starting to 
> get my head around Linux a bit, but it's taking time.
> 
> I just typed:
> 
> dmesg, /var/logs
> 
> into my Ubuntu box via SSH and it said command not found. No doubt I did 
> completely the wrong thing with your instruction.
> 
> Damian
> 

It was a question, not an instruction.

OK. Now that we know what level you are at we can start afresh.

1. Here is the basic link to help & documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation
You should spend some time exploring the links on that page.

2. Here is the link to the administration guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SystemAdministration
and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles
will provide you information on log files.

There are a couple places that we can check for your problem, but first
please provide the basics of your machine (memory, cpu, ethernet
interfaces (wired, wireless etc).

>From a terminal (Applications|Accessories|Terminal

$ ifconfig -a | grep -A4 ^lo
post the output.

$ cd /var/log

>From Nautilus (Places|Home Folder)

Double-click on .xsession-errors
post the output.

After that we can move on to the next steps.