From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 6 19:02:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6284A106564A for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:02:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AF88FC0C for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:02:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081206190227.RTG19141.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:02:27 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.159.188]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id nv2R1a00844AlM802v2RfP; Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:02:26 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=b2b6xPWZyZnRJ4xi-a0A:9 a=d1A7Db0CjrI-jxVoF-lyAE-yvyQA:4 a=uEZAvmEy1BkA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:02:07 -0600 To: =?utf-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1bd550a00812061004o44b03addva88df517ed7f0375@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00812061004o44b03addva88df517ed7f0375@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome slow at start up X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:02:27 -0000 On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:04:00 -0600, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 BETA2 for AMD64. > > With this version, Gnome starts up very slowly. If I take a look at > the session properties window, it seems nautilus takes a very long > time trying to connect. However, after some time, it connects but the > gnome-wm script is marked as Status UNKNOWN (That column of the > treeview is not documented and I had to look at the code...). > So it seems at the end, metacity is somehow stalled during start up. > > The --purge-delay=5000 as suggested here > (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=445) causes other > processes (gnome-at-visual and gnome-volume-manager) to be marked as > not connected > > If I only set the --warn-delay=5000 I get gnome-wm (metacity in my > case) to be marked as not responding. > > In the end, everything seems to work fine. However IMHO, it is a bit > dirty to use these two options because they only mask the problem, but > it seems clear there are some faulting processes. > > Any ideas of what the problem is? http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20 Cheers, Mezz > Thanks in advance. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org