REALLY slow xstart and kde start
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 19 03:38:35 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:29 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote:
> >
> > > Any ideas what's up?
> > >
> > I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting
> > the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem
> > - it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues
> > fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so
> > coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom
> > wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had
> > it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of
> > time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to
> > understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to
> > about 15 minutes
> >
> My boot time if fine. And X starts fine too (I get my login screen
> within a couple of minutes of booting).
>
> The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then
> press enter.
>
> My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to
> complete start my session.
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go to a virtual console and watch top...
<control><alt><F2>
login as root
run 'top'
<alt><F7> # return to GUI
login as normal
<control><alt><F2>
see which process is using up the CPU
Craig
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