Re: Fwd: Gnome-shell very slow on boot

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> writes:

Yeah... I can actually hear the drive doing lots of groaning as gdm/gnome fires up...

That still happens? On spinning metal that *isn't* sick? How old are the disks, and when was the last time you ran a SMART self-test on them? map smartctl -t short -- /dev/sd[abc] # or long watch map smartctl -l selftest -- /dev/sd[abc] Note that Seagate controllers report in-progress self-tests; WDs do not report a test until it has finished/failed/aborted.