> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Telsa Gwynne" <hobbit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 03:46 > Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow > > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:09:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Hoyt Bailey > wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't think strace is going to help, but here are some things you > can > > > > try: > > > > 1) ssh localhost uptime > > > > This will either prompt you for a password or complain that it can't > > > > connect to a sshd. In either case, the response should be very quick - > > > > if it takes 30 seconds or so the the problem is with the network. > > > > > > Issued 'ssh localhost uptime' as me. From terminal in KDE & gnome. > > > ssh: Connect to localhost port 22. Connection refused > > > Issued 'ssh localhost uptime' as su (root). > > > ssh: Connect to localhost port 22. Connection refused > > > In all cases response was instant. Refusal could be due to High > Security > > > setting. > > > > Sounds more like you don't have sshd running. "ps aux | grep sshd" > > will tell you if you have it running or not: if the only line > > that comes back is the grep, then it's not running. You're looking > > for something like this instead: > > > > $ ps aux | grep sshd > > root 2668 0.0 0.1 4940 620 ? S Jan20 0:11 > /usr/sbin/sshd > > hobbit 12821 0.0 0.1 5188 560 pts/8 S 09:36 0:00 grep sshd > > > > (ssh is the client; sshd is the daemon which means it will accept > > ssh connections) I just checked and ps aux | grep ssh returns 'ssh-agent' but ps aux | grep sshd returns grep sshd. The daemon isnt running but the client is. For now its more likely that I would need a secure connenction established from the other end. It is unlikely that I would be establishing a ssh connection for some time. > > > > > > 3) uptime > > > > > > Only results are from top. > > > > You can just type "uptime", incidentally. > > > > > I could not locate .gnomere-errors. .xsession-errors I intended to > attach, > > > however I was unable to transfer to either floppy or to a CD. There > were > > > two warnings listed both repeated a number of times. As follows: > > > >From (gnome terminal: 3751): > > > Warning **: No handler for control sewujence 'device-control-string' > defined > > > (this was repeater a number of times)>20 > > > Warning **: Attempt to set invalid NRC map I(repeated 2 times) > > > Warning **:[invalid UTYF-8] invalid NRC map I (1 time) > > > Warning **: Attempt to set invalid NRC map I (1 time) > > > I dont know what happened to k3b it worked previously. > > > > Many of the Gnome and Gtk programs are very chatty: they will > > record a lot of information. As a general rule, warnings are > > not important unless you're a hacker trying to tidy things up. > > Errors are more important, and "critical" tends to mean "can't > > even run". > > > Thanks you are very informative I'll check when I can. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
