Hi, From previous concersations I assume a lot of folks here use KDE. I run mostly stable and just updated to kde-4.10.5 which included an update to kdm. It now seems that I'm plagued by a more than 2 minute delay from entering my password until KDE flashes up the box showing that KDE is starting up. Once KDE is up and running everything seems normal. There are no messages in /dev/log/message that identify any problems. Just a 2+ minute delay before much of anything occurs.
Here's a small snippet of message showing the basic delay: Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 polkitd[2447]: Started polkitd version 0.110 Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 polkitd[2447]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 polkitd[2447]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 polkitd[2447]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 1 rules Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 dbus[2013]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 polkitd[2447]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 dbus[2013]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 kdm: :0[2350]: pam_unix(kde:session): session opened for user mark by (uid=0) Aug 4 15:40:22 c2RAID6 kdm: :0[2350]: pam_ck_connector(kde:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0 Aug 4 15:42:35 c2RAID6 dbus[2013]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper) Aug 4 15:42:35 c2RAID6 dbus[2013]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower' Aug 4 15:42:35 c2RAID6 dbus[2013]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' (using servicehelper) I Googled around for a while and got curious about whether this was really a KDE problem so I emerged xfce4. It has the same 2 minute issue so this appears to me more of a kdm issue as best I can tell right now. It's not anything obvious (to me) with networking delays as I can sit in the console and ping web sites. No delays there. I got back to the GUI and it's just waiting. I ran iotop in a console and there's nothing going on. The machine is just hung for a couple of minutes. This just started in the last couple of days with this month's KDE release. Thanks, Mark
