Your slow login appears to be because gnome-setting-daemon doesn't
register with gnome-session
The D-Bus reply timeout appears unrelated, being about GVfs
** Package changed: dbus (Ubuntu) = gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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intermittent very slow X login with eventual dbus error
This is not likely to be a gnome-settings-daemon issue really. It
doesn't register with the session manager (it just fork()'s when all the
plugins are loaded). Even if it doesn't do this in time, the phase
timeout is only 10 seconds anyway so wouldn't account for a 3 minute
delay. It seems like
This launcpad doesn't seem to let me attach more than one file, so I
just put them up on the web. The first file is the result of
gnome-session --debug 21 | tee gnome-session.log
when run during a regular gnome session (I just thought, I'd try it).
The second is when I logged in to an xterm
I should have answered your questions: so I had a fresh install of
ubuntu 9.04 on this box about 2 months ago, and then when the 9.10
update came out (Nove 1st), I updated. I had the problem with login
from the start (so even with 9.04). I changed one thing in X: 3 weeks
after the distro upgrade
Ooops, I didn't realize that I after entering your command, I was
supposed to wait patiently until gnome starts. I now did that, and it
did start in about 5 minutes. All seem well except some panel applets
didn't start, and a dbus error was reported. Here is the debug log
