Description of problem: When I boot my laptop, I reach the login screen after 5 seconds. However, when entering my password, it takes 1-2 minutes to get into KDE. In fedora 15, the login process was much quicker. Fedora 16 was a clean install, however the home directory was the one of a fedora 15 installation and I did not remove any kde directories or config files (located in .kde or .local or .config). I am very willing to figure out where this delay comes from, but I would need some help with this. The only thing I found was something in Xorg.0.log. The log file repeats a message constantly, with small time intervals (9.871, 9.924, 10.027). Then it is followed by the same message but with bigger skips. (35.067 and 76.077). I expect that this is during login of kde. Afterwards the message does not repeat itself again. [ 9.871] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 9.871] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 9.871] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 9.871] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) [ 9.924] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 9.924] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 9.924] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 9.924] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) [ 9.974] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 9.974] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 9.974] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 9.974] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) [ 10.027] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 10.027] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 10.027] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 10.027] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) [ 35.067] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 35.068] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 35.068] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 35.068] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) [ 76.077] (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16500 [ 76.077] (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 76.077] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 102.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz) [ 76.077] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 85.00 1440 1488 1520 1836 900 903 909 926 -hsync -vsync (46.3 kHz) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I am currently running kde-4.7.3-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the system 2. log into kde Actual results: the login process takes a long time Expected results: the login process should take mere seconds (this was so in f15)
I just checked the kde startup time for a new user, and it is also horrendously long. Hence, it does not depend on the old kde settings. Could the bug be X-related?
Created attachment 557037 [details] bootchart of login I used bootchart to time the startup and what is going on. Before login I ran bootchartd start and after login I stoped it again. In the figure you see that for a long time the cpu is not continuously active, but more sporadically. Any reason why that could be?
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