Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8201
Long delays during X boot under Gnome
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
After signing on the initial login screen (X has booted up at this point) there is about a two minute delay before the window manager starts painting the controls and default xterms. In 'messages', this is the sequence: <many messages deleted> Jan 4 21:41:32 localhost sound: Starting sound configuration: Jan 4 21:41:32 localhost sound: sound Jan 4 21:41:32 localhost sound: Jan 4 21:41:32 localhost rc: Starting sound succeeded Jan 4 21:41:33 localhost PAM_pwdb[468]: (su) session opened for user xfs by (uid=0) Jan 4 21:41:33 localhost PAM_pwdb[468]: (su) session closed for user xfs Jan 4 21:41:34 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded Jan 4 21:41:34 localhost linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup Jan 4 21:41:34 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded Jan 4 21:41:54 localhost PAM_pwdb[537]: (gdm) session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jan 4 21:43:28 localhost gnome-name-server[640]: starting Jan 4 21:43:28 localhost gnome-name-server[640]: starting Jan 4 21:43:28 localhost gnome-name-server[640]: name server starting Jan 4 21:43:28 localhost gnome-name-server[640]: name server starting Jan 4 21:43:32 localhost gnome-name-server[647]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/Panel:1.0] = 0x8056300 Jan 4 21:43:32 localhost gnome-name-server[648]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/Panel:1.0] = 0x80565e0 Jan 4 21:43:34 localhost gnome-name-server[653]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/Panel:1.0] = 0x8056a70 Jan 4 21:43:34 localhost gnome-name-server[654]: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:GNOME/Panel:1.0] = 0x8056cb8 <normal operations start here> Note that I use the loopback address as the system IP until I start up my PPP interface (manually). This problem only recently began occurring. I do not know what change to the system configuration the advent of this bug may have coincided with, if any. -Jim Parnell
assign to gnome
Various desktop components need to be able to reliably turn your hostname into an IP address, and vice versa - from the sound of it you are doing some network magic that might make this not true.
The PPP interface is not starteduntil after gnome has loaded. The DNS defined in my configuration is my ISP's, which would be inaccessible until I've connected. Do you think starting PPP at boot time would make the desktop critters happy (assuming the connection goes through)?
You could do that, or you could fix /etc/hosts to contain information on your hostname (as it should).