Long delay between gdm-login and gnome-shell

[tuxor]

Hi,

as uttered in a different thread already, I'm suffering from intolerably long delays between gdm-login and the availability of the gnome-shell (up to 40 seconds).

Usually it takes that long when logging in directly after a fresh boot. It usually takes 25 seconds until the gdm-wallpaper is replaced by the users wallpaper. After that it takes another 10-15 seconds until the top-panel appears and sometimes again 5-10 seconds until the GUI is responsive to mouse/keyboard input.

If I log out from a current session and log in again, I don't experience those delays!

There are no helpful entries in the most important log files.

Is there anybody else suffering from this? What might cause this behaviour? Is this a known bug or is it worth to report this?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

It is probably hardware dependant as GNOME Shell depends on acceleration. File it with your display details

[flokip]

See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097919.html

[Fenrin]

See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/097919.html

hm is it really related to this thread or did you post the wrong link?

I have this long delay after login too.

[flokip]

hm is it really related to this thread or did you post the wrong link?

I have this long delay after login too.

Yes se http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1453410#post1453410

[tuxor]

no, I'm sorry, but you got me completely wrong. I've been experiencing this for weeks now.

[Fenrin]

"yum remove at-spi2*" should help to reduce the delay (see mail here) (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098400.html). For me the delay between login and Gnome 3 desktop is about 12 seconds now. Still not fast but ok :)

[tuxor]

"yum remove at-spi2*" should help to reduce the delay (see mail here) (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098400.html). For me the delay between login and Gnome 3 desktop is about 12 seconds now. Still not fast but ok :)
Thank you for this hint, but I removed all a11y-tools immediately after installation of F15, so there are no packages at-spi* ... by the way, the delay is getting shorter from update to update, so I'm hopeful this will be OK until the final release ;-)

[kraekan]

"yum remove at-spi2*" should help to reduce the delay (see mail here) (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098400.html). For me the delay between login and Gnome 3 desktop is about 12 seconds now. Still not fast but ok :)

That seems to make a big difference for me. Cheers.

[DBelton]

I am getting the long delay as well. And as tuxor above, the delay does seem to be getting shorter with each update.

I haven't been looking too much into it since it has been improving, though. I figured they at least had a handle on the issue, knew what was causing it, and are taking steps to alleviate the problem.

Now if I could just figure out how to get the danged desktop back so I could drop my files on it, I would be happy :D

[calanor]

@DBelton I am sure I saw something related to dropping files on desktop in the dconf-editor, I don't exactly remember where and I can not check because dconf-editor has been broken for quite some time now. If you have the patience to look through gsettings by listing keys you may find it :D

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@DBelton I think I found it. Install gnome-tweak-tool and its there under file manager tab.

[DBelton]

calanor, yes there is an option to let filemanager control the desktop, but it does not work like you would think it does. I tried it the other day and at first it looked like it was just what I wanted... Until I opened a folder. Then that folder became the desktop, and there was no way to close it, or get out of it :(

It is a little progress, though, and it makes me think that with a little tweaking, I may get my good ole desktop back yet :)