The reason it manifests itself in a more direct fashion now is due to tracker. The delay you are seeing is related with the indexing tracker does the first time it is run for a user.
ps aux | grep root shows gvfs and trackerd processes running as root, that started just after running gksu gdmsetup in my normal account.
ls -al /root/.config/tracker
ls -al /root/.local/share/tracker
ls -al /root/.gvfs
This bug is a consequence of a longstanding upstream bug:
http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 164786 (gdm frontend runs entirely as root)
Notice that this upstream bug was opened in 2005, currently shows an assigned status, a priority=high and a severity=major.
This bug has been the source of annoyances for ubuntu users for a long time as can be seen by /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +bug/27156
https:/
The reason it manifests itself in a more direct fashion now is due to tracker. The delay you are seeing is related with the indexing tracker does the first time it is run for a user.
ps aux | grep root shows gvfs and trackerd processes running as root, that started just after running gksu gdmsetup in my normal account.
ls -al /root/. config/ tracker local/share/ tracker
ls -al /root/.
ls -al /root/.gvfs
also confirms this.