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Slow-starting Gnome in Jaunty?

Asked by jari

Ever since upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty the first Gnome session after reboot takes a really long time to start. Like 2-3 minutes. That's still faster than XP was, but 10 times slower than Intrepid. Subsequent log-off - log-on procedures are a lot faster, albeit still slower than Intrepid. Have others experienced similar issues or is it just my configuration? Seems to be just a Gnome issue, gdm loads just the same as in Intrepid and so do other window managers / KDE.

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Mikechaos (mikechaos13) said : 		#1

Didn't experience any slowness since I upgraded to Jaunty. Might be your configuration. Maybe you could try the "Computer Janitor" (System -> Administration -> Computer Janitor). You might have a lot of unused packages.
You could also check in Systemp -> Preference -> application at startup. Check if you have things that are started automatically at each startup, that you don't use.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

I'm having similar 'problems' but i tend to reboot when i need to go for a cuppa tea or something so don't usually notice and it's not a 'problem' for me. I thought one of the main focusses on the jaunty upgrade was in reducing bootup times.

I assumed it was something to do with having an ati card that isn't one of the ultra-latest 4000 series as there seems to be problems with slightly older cards in Jaunty. Both the proprietary and OpenSource drivers break my system so i just stick with whatever basic thing it is that's in the basic install.

Interesting that other Wm's don't suffer from this 'problem' lol
Thanks, Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Fethi DILMI (addictcook) said : 		#3

You should make some updates because is 20 times faster than Intrepid in this kind of things.
But you should select some important updates , go to system->administration->software sources; and the the next showed in this image:

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6154/25278558.png

& this one too:

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/1383/98841525.png

After doing that close the window; a message will be shown to you , click on on reload. and after it finishes dowloading necessary files , go and make an update. This will correct many errors in jaunty as this problem .

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jari (jaript) said : 		#4

Well, I created a test user and observed the desktop load quickly with the Ubuntu default settings... so it must indeed be something the matter with mine. On to find the details. Thanks everybody!

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

Nicely done :))))
I have reinstalled Jaunty and that had little effect so perhaps it's something in the defaults for the first user?
Anyway, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Nicely done :))))
I have reinstalled Jaunty and that had little effect so perhaps it's something in the defaults for the first user?
Anyway, good luck and regards from
Tom :)