Thanks. As it happens, the problem was with the package 'dhcp3-client' and not with either KDE or Gnome. On the day I got ADSL, I started using dhcp with a router, I downloaded a lot of packages including dhclient and then the unbearably slow logins began.
After uninstalling a lot of KDE and Gnome I found that login was hanging for several minutes with other window managers and also found that typing into search fields like google or user/password fields for web mail, also caused the browser to hang. I don't understand why it was doing this, but uninstalling dhcp3-client and switching to 'pump' has fixed it. anyone got an explanation for this? joss On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:43:22PM +0200, Francois Taiani wrote: > Hi Joss, > > do you see anything particular in your ~/.gnome-errors? This might help > track your problem to its cause. You can also try to see if any > particular messages are logged during your logging in using something > like > > "grep -hr 'May 12 17:3' * | sort | uniq | less" > > in the directory /var/log as root. (You have to change 'May 12 17:3' to > some time range in which the problem appeared.) > > Good luck > > Francois > > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 01:06, Joss Winn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Since running apt-get update/upgrade yesterday, both gnome and kde > > are extremely slow to start - almost non functional - after the first login. > > Is anyone else experiencing this? I was running mainly gnome but > > also installed most of kde 3.1.1 at this time and wonder if it is > > something the kde install has affected. > > > > it's made the GUI system a real pain. 2D acceleration is fine but > > login takes up to 5 minutes and some apps and preference settings > > take several minutes, too. > > > > cheers > > > > Joss > > -- > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Francois Taiani +33 (0) 5 6133 6406 > LAAS-CNRS (http://www.laas.fr) Dependable Computing > http://www.laas.fr/~ftaiani and Fault Tolerance --
