On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 08:05:50PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Wow.. there is quite a lot.
Eh, it's within sigma for a GUI laptop. I notice lot of them are KNN, which is unusual unless you're been explicitly disabling them
Yeah, I have. Attempt to decrease boot time slightly.
OK, so then we start debugging /etc/X11/Xsession.d/, your .xsession or .xinitrc (if any), and wherever the gdm-specific session code is (probably /etc/gdm3/default.Xsession or something).
I'd probably just drop some timing lines into those files willy nilly and see how they turn up in ~/.xsessions-errors. You *did* already look at .xsession-errors, right?
OK. Sounds like this one is going to take a fair bit of time/effort... Would purging the whole xserver/gnome/gdm/whatever else achieve the same end goal? As in hopefully resolving the long gdm start time. I've already tried that and unfortunately it didn't really help. If not of course I'd like to get to the bottom of this one, but since I've now got an ubuntu partition on the same system, and I was always considering switching to that I might just stick with ubuntu until I can find a couple of days to do this tedious work :) Whenever I get a bit of free time though, I'll definitely investigate with bootchart and then start to investigate the files you mentioned. Thanks very much for your help. Cheers, Dan