Xubuntu 9.04 takes excessively long to log in

[Cruncher]

Binary package hint: xfdesktop4

Since upgrade to 9.04, it takes forever to login to the desktop.
Time from login screen until I see my desktop: 1:00 min
Compared to bootup time (grub to login screen): 52 seconds...
(This is on a single core P4 2.4GHz with 1.5GB RAM)

Unfortunately I don't remember the times for 8.10, but I am pretty certain I saw my dekstop about 20 seconds after login.
One difference I noticed is that previously I saw an empty desktop with the panels, and then the session windows were started. But even while they were launching, I could already work on the machine (such as launching additional apps from the panel, etc.). In 9.04, once I see my desktop, all session windows are already there. For some this might be considered an improvement ("Hey, it switched to my desktop and everything was already initialized!"), but what's the point if you have to stare so much longer at the spinning Xubuntu logo?

Also, Jaunty is said to have improved boot-up time considerably. Unfortunately I did not time my bootup time while still in Intrepid, but what's the improvement if xfce has gotten so slow that the *overall* time grub-to-desktop is noticeably worse than before? :-/

This is extremely annoying for me. The main reason for me to switch to Xubuntu as opposed to Ubuntu/Kubuntu was the ridiculous long login times for KDE. Now xfce has the same problem, or is even worse? :-(

Is there a workaround? I already disabled several of the gazillion launchers, applets, and notifiers, but it doesn't really improve the overall speed.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report. Could you check whether the workaround given in Bug #363664 speeds up your login?

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1. Go to Xfc4 Settings Manager->Keyboard->Layout
2. Click 'Use system defaults'
"

[Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse)]

Hm, at the moment the problem has gotten worse. I cannot login anymore, after 2:30 min I can see my dekstop wallpaper, but no panels, and it doesn't seem to revocer.
Starting a "top" in a console as soon as I loged in in the gdm session shows that about 10 "xfwm4" processes are spawned, and shortly after over 20(!) "xfdesktop" processes, the system uses about 800MB (excluding disk cache), one of them consumes a lot of CPU for a while, then nothing else happens and the CPU stays idle. Switching back to X-session is not working anymore, it hangs.

I noticed the 20 xfdesktop processes already before (when I could still log in). They just sit there and eat a lot of memory (12MB each). Is this normal? Or is this already part of my problem?

[Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse)]

OK, after another bug search I found a workaround. I am back down to 15 sec login time now.
Marking as duplicate of bug 329616.

Thanks anyway!