GDM is very slow to appear

[Vytas]

Binary package hint: gdm

After updates of yesterday, GDM is very slow to appear.
System: up to date hardy i386

The empty screen appears with a busy cursor, and actual login information appears after 90 second or so.
You can see this behaviour of doing nothing for a minute in straces (please note it took me some time to attach to gdm, so the actual delay is even bigger than depicted in the logs).

GDM spawns secondary pids, I attach logs of both.

[Vytas (vytas)]

GDM window with user names etc started appearing on 09:42:06 in these logs

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What gdm theme are you using?

[Mika Fischer (zoop)]

I have the same problem. For me it happened when I upgraded my RAM from 1GB to 4GB. First I thought it might be a problem with MTRRs, but it seems only gdm is making problems.

KDM works fine and if I start gnome-sesion via $HOME/.xsession, this works too...

I'm using the Human-theme with face browser.

I'm not sure how I can debug this. I tried stracing, but I would have to use -f which is really really slow stracing the X server and so on...

[Vytas (vytas)]

I'm on a different PC atm, but it's Ubuntu with Face browser IIRC

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for your bug report. What gdm theme are you using?
>
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> [hardy] GDM is very slow to appear
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210694
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

and stop using the title to specify the version you are using, that creates confusion and extra work when the next ubuntu will be available