[gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. The last thing I remember doing is modifying /etc/conf.d/rc, emerging Thunderbird, and fetching some sources for another Gentoo box. I've tried failsafe GNOME, same thing. Failsafe terminal works, though. The mouse works and I can Ctrl-Alt-Backspace whenever I want and X/GNOME restarts. Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. I had similar problems a while back. My problems were related to the gnome profile that I had messed up somehow. You could try removing the .gnome* and .gconf* directories form your home directory. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated features of gnome ... BillK On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. The last thing I remember doing is modifying /etc/conf.d/rc, emerging Thunderbird, and fetching some sources for another Gentoo box. I've tried failsafe GNOME, same thing. Failsafe terminal works, though. The mouse works and I can Ctrl-Alt-Backspace whenever I want and X/GNOME restarts. Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:31, Colin wrote: Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. Did this happen after a reboot? Check the permissions of /dev/null -- Mike Williams pgpWfGzWHSA21.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:31, Colin wrote: Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. Did this happen after a reboot? Check the permissions of /dev/null ls -l /dev/null: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 23 19:13 /dev/null -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
Janne Johansson wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. I had similar problems a while back. My problems were related to the gnome profile that I had messed up somehow. You could try removing the .gnome* and .gconf* directories form your home directory. I added .old to the directory names, but it didn't work. GNOME still starts up very, very slowly. I waited until I could get System Monitor to open up. I noticed that X was using well over 50% of the CPU at all times. System Monitor took up a good 30% chunk, but that's probably becuase I had the update interval very low. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
W.Kenworthy wrote: check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated features of gnome ... I noticed that mDNSResponder failed to stop on shutdown, along with famd and gdm. I don't have an (apparent) problem with DNS, though. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
