2010/4/16 Natxo Asenjo natxo.asenjo@gmail.com:
hi,
I have been using the f12 (686) on a dell latitude e6500 laptop. This is my corporate workstation and so far it's working really nice. Everything works out of the box and configuring it to work with its docking station was very easy (much easier than expected). Great work! Thanks.
There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and login there, but if I try to login graphically it will take me like 2 to 3 minutes to complete the process. I cannot see anything in the log files.
Like I said, it does not happen all the time nor it is really annoying, but I would like to find out why this is happening. In /var/log/messages I do not get any errors. How can I debug the gnome login process? -- Groeten, Natxo Asenjo
I had a similar problem until recently with F12 (and previously F11). But in my case it took EVERY TIME additional 40 seconds before I could login. This system boots in runlevel 3 and I do startx when I need GUI. So, actually this delay occurred just after all daemons have been started and during login process. Playing around with services I've found it was preload installed a while ago who caused a lot of disk IO usage. Disabling it resulted in a faster boot process (with no delay at the end of it) and less memory usage on a booted system. But now X takes about two times slower than before...