Re: Fwd: Gnome-shell very slow on boot

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 03:01:54PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:

The OP may have a problem with some weird daemon that is stuck when he logs in.

So I disabled gdm on boot and decided to try startx from a console. I checked the network was up and running including dns. Then I ran startx. It took approximately 40 seconds for everything to become ready to use. So about 10 seconds faster than gdm I suppose. Is this still an unreasonable delay and if so does this rule out the daemon waiting for dns to become functional first...?

With Windowmaker that daemon would not start in the first place. Problem solved.

Hmm, maybe I will look into this. Though I wonder if there are any accessibility implications since I use orca... Cheers, Dan