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Long loading of gnome panel with sensors-applet

Asked by Sergei (Nolar) Vasilyev

Ubuntu 8.10.a5 Intrepid Ibex, with very fresh and up-to-date packages. When adding sensors-applet to panel, and then reboot or start a new session, all the applets start very very long time (maybe a minute or so) - even networkmanager, bluetooth, trash and others. Only running green man ("switch user") is available. Additionally, panel does not respond to interaction - nor clicks, nor hotkeys (Alt+F1). After that applet starts at last, everything works fine.

The question is: Is this something I got from upgrading (8.04.1->8.10.a5), or it is a common bug even for new installs?

$ uname -a
Linux NolarBook 2.6.27-3-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 10 16:02:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg-query -l | grep -i sensor
ii libsensors-applet-plugin0 2.2.1-1ubuntu4 Library for plugins for the 'sensors-applet'
ii libsensors3 1:2.10.7-1 library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens
ii libsensors4 1:3.0.2-1ubuntu2 library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens
ii lm-sensors 1:3.0.2-1ubuntu2 utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan se
ii sensors-applet 2.2.1-1ubuntu4 Display readings from hardware sensors in yo

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Sergei (Nolar) Vasilyev (nolar) said : 		#1

Got it! I completely removed /etc/network/interfaces someday; thought it is not needed anymore with NetworkManager being so smart. But it still needs configuration for loopback interface there. Otherwise all loading of gnome and many other things become slow, delayed, or abnormally lazy. Restoring this file have helped.