I've recently had this problem and tracked it back to a mistake I made
in an earlier session. I was fiddling trying programs and in the menu I
found this thing called Internet/video conferencing. I tried that,
nothing happened, and when I tried to log out, the system sat a long
time and eventually I hit Alt-Ctl-Backspace. Then at the next start, it
stopped at login, just in the way you describe. It would sit a long time.
I use WindowMaker as my window manager and it would start fine, just the
gnome splash would be stopped half way through. I could open terminals,
run gnome programs like nautilus.
Sometimes I'd get repeated errors about "another instance of gnome-panel
already running".
Eventually, I realized that there was some program failing and it was
trying to re-start because it was in the Gnome session. I did
ps aux
and saw a lot of programs running that I did not recognise, one of them
was "gnomemeeting". After doing a kill -9 on that process id, then the
program was magically fixed.
pj
Larry W. Virden wrote:
Today I have been looking into a peculiar problem one user (out of
over 300) is having while logging into GNOME.
Platform: SPARC Solaris 8, Sun's GNOME
For some reason, during the process starting the gnome-session,
things sit for 5-10 minutes. There are only two shell
scripts in the session; neither of which have any sleeps
in them.
We see the processes in the first script start. Then
comes a 5 - 10 minute wait, and the next applications
start, and then the window manager and gnome-panel processes
start.
--
Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn@xxxxxx
Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
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University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086
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